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		</div><p>Mexico’s president has admitted he did “briefly faint” over the weekend before he was diagnosed with Covid – something his spokesman had previously denied.</p>
<p>Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said his doctors had been concerned enough to administer a litre of rehydration fluids.</p>
<p>He said in a recorded chat from the National Palace in Mexico City — where he lives and is isolating — that doctors wanted to fly him back to the capital on a stretcher.</p>
<p>Mr Lopez Obrador was on a working tour of the Yucatan peninsula on Sunday when he tested positive for the coronavirus, his third bout of Covid.</p>
<p>But he wrote in his social media accounts on Sunday that “it isn’t serious”.</p>
<p>Reports in the local press that day said Mr Lopez Obrador felt faint on Sunday morning and had to cancel his tour, something his presidential spokesman denied at the time.</p>
<p>But on Wednesday, the president acknowledged it “had become complicated … I had a crisis because my blood pressure suddenly went down” during a meeting with military engineers working on his pet project, a tourist train on the Yucatan peninsula.</p>
<p>“It was like I fell asleep,” he said.</p>
<p>“I didn’t lose consciousness but I did briefly faint because of the low blood pressure.”</p>
<p>The president said he was flown back to Mexico City on an “air ambulance” but said he was not carried on a stretcher.</p>
<p>Mr Lopez Obrador, 69, who has acknowledged a history of heart problems, said his heart was “not at all affected”.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, US ambassador Ken Salazar, who frequently meets with Mr Lopez Obrador, said he too had tested positive for Covid.</p>
<p>He wrote on his Twitter account: “I am well.”</p>
<p>Mr Lopez Obrador caught Covid in early 2021 and was ill but recovered after receiving what he described at the time as an experimental treatment.</p>
<p>In January 2022, he announced he had come down with Covid a second time amid a spike in coronavirus infections in Mexico.</p>
<p>Mr Lopez Obrador declined to enact mandatory mask mandates and he refused to wear a mask even at the peak of the pandemic unless it was absolutely necessary, like on airline flights.</p>
<p>He famously refused to use Mexico’s presidential jet, which he recently announced had been sold to Tajikistan.</p>
<p>While Mr Lopez Obrador remains in isolation — he said he has spent the time working on speeches — interior secretary Adan Augusto Lopez has been filling in at the daily presidential morning news briefings.</p>
<p>That could provide a boost for the interior secretary’s flagging campaign to win the presidential nomination of Mr Lopez Obrador’s Morena party for the 2024 elections.</p>
<p>Mr Lopez, who is not related to the president, currently trails Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum in most polls of the primary race.</p>
<p>Mexico’s president admits briefly fainting due to Covid</p>
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