Rocío Nahle, Mexico’s Energy Minister, tests positive for COVID-19

The head of Mexico’s Energy Ministry Rocío Nahle García tested positive for COVID-19 after she had contact with “a person who presented this disease” during one of her work visits at the new Dos Bocas refinery in Paraíso, Tabasco.

The head of the Energy Ministry took to Twitter to inform she is currently in isolation due to COVID-19 . She asserted she is asymptomatic and is receiving the corresponding medical care.

Nahle is expected to resume her activities on August 21.

On August 7, the minister had informed through her social media accounts that she would isolate at her home and that she would continue working on Energy matters during the 14 days of her quarantine .

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The contact with a person infected with COVID-19 has extended to part of Nahle’s team as well as four officials from the Mexican Institute of Petroleum (IMP) that are working on the Dos Bocas Project and who have performed the corresponding tests.

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has joined other officials from Mexico’s government cabinet that have tested positive to COVID-19, such as the head of Public Functions Irma Eréndira Sandoval, Finance Minister Arturo Herrera, the IMSS general director Zoé Robledo, the head of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer (PROFECO) Ricardo Sheffield, and the Interior deputy secretary Ricardo Peralta.

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