The Mexican magnate of the Carlos Slim communications, considered the most wealthy man in Latin America, had high altitude and was “very well” while being hospitalized by covid-19, informed this Saturday a source close to the emperor’s family.
Slim, 81 years old, “has been at his home since the 28th of January and is very happy”, he told AFP a source working in the Carso Group, the family of the magnate.
The late Carlos Slim Domit, the magnate’s cheerleader, announced on Twitter that the duo of America Moved to a public hospital in Mexico “for clinical analysis, monitoring and treatment opportunity”.
“It’s very good. It has undergone a very favorable evolution in COVID-19 in more than one week of minor symptoms,” added Slim Domit, adding that it had been diagnosed as severe.
Through its foundation, Slim participates in the financing of the vaccine against covid-19 developed by the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.
The biology is produced in Argentina and commences its use in Mexico for its distribution in Latin America, without the hint of luxury.
Slim is the richest man in Latin America, with an estimated fortune of 58,500 million dollars, according to the Forbes review, which looks at the number 21 of the world’s millionaires.
America Mobile is the dominant telephony in the Latin American market and has a presence in Europe, Austria and the United States.
Slim’s contagio announced a day after the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced a positive vote for covid-19.
José Kuri Harfush, Slim’s emperor and who worked with two of the magnates’ firms, failed due to complications related to coronavirus in July, 71 years ago.