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President Tests Positive After Taking COVID-19 Jab

President Has Tested Positive After Taking COVID-19 Jab.

 

TrueTells Nigeria reports that the president of Argentina Alberto Fernandez who has been vaccinated against COVID-19, on Friday announced that he has tested positive for the virus.

 

 

Alberto Fernandez

“At the end of today, after presenting a fever of 37.3 and a slight headache, I performed an antigen test, which was positive,” he tweeted, adding he was waiting for the results of a PCR test to confirm the diagnosis.

Fernandez, who marked his 62 birthday on Friday was in isolation as a precaution but said he was “physically well.”

“Although I would have liked to end my birthday without this news, I am also in good spirits,” he said.

 

The Argentina President was vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and had his second shot on February 11, sources in the presidency told AFP.

 

Argentina is facing a second wave of coronavirus with a sustained rise in cases.

 

The South American country of 44 million inhabitants has recorded more than 2.3 million infections and over 55,000 deaths from Covid-19.

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