The Mexican businessman has “had a favorable evolution after a week of minor symptoms.”

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Carlos Slim Helú has COVID-19 . According to his son Carlos Slim Domit , the businessman, who is just a few days away from his 81st birthday, has “had a favorable evolution after a week of minor symptoms.”

“I comment that my father in a preventive way attended the National Institute of Nutrition for clinical analysis, monitoring and timely treatment, he is very well and has had a very favorable evolution to Covid more than a week of minor symptoms,” wrote Slim Domit, through your Twitter account.

I comment that my father preventively attended the National Institute of Nutrition for clinical analyzes, monitoring and timely treatment, he is very well and has had a very favorable evolution to Covid after more than a week of minor symptoms.

– Carlos Slim Domit (@Carlos_Slim_D) January 25, 2021

In March 2020, the Carlos Slim Foundation donated one billion pesos for the purchase of support equipment for critical patients infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus . Resources that they would use for ventilators, ecosonograms and video-laryngoscopes, as well as protective equipment for health personnel.

Likewise, in November 2020 it was announced that the richest man in Mexico would promote the manufacture , packaging and distribution of the vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford in the Latin American region, through of its foundation.