Mexican communications mogul Carlos Slim, considered Latin America’s richest man, was fired and is “very healthy” after being hospitalized for Covid-19, a source close to the businessman’s family reported this Saturday. .
Slim, 81, “has been home since January 28 and is in very good health,” a source working for Grupo Carso, who belongs to the tycoon’s family, told AFP.
On Monday, Carlos Slim Domit, son of the tycoon, announced on Twitter that the owner of América Móvil was going to a public hospital in Mexico “for clinical analysis, monitoring and timely treatment.”
“He is doing very well. He has made a very favorable evolution to COVID-19 after more than a week of mild symptoms,” added Slim Domit at the time, without specifying when his father was diagnosed.
Through his foundation, Slim is participating in funding the covid-19 vaccine developed by the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.
The organic is produced in Argentina and began to be bottled in Mexico for distribution in Latin America, not for profit.
Slim is the richest man in Latin America, with an estimated fortune of $ 58.5 billion, according to Forbes magazine, which puts him in the 21st place among millionaires in the world.
América Móvil is the dominant telephone company in the Latin American market with a presence in Europe, Austria and the United States.
Slim’s contamination was revealed a day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced he had tested positive for Covid-19.
José Kuri Harfush, a businessman close to Slim who served as a counselor in two of the magnate’s firms, died last July at the age of 71 from complications related to the coronavirus.