Mexico president returns after 2nd COVID-19 infection

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has returned to his morning news conference following a week of isolation for his second coronavirus infection. The president used his relatively speedy recovery to remark Monday on the lighter symptoms of the omicron variant, which has quickly become dominant in the region, though he had not said explicitly that was the variant he had. He said, “It is demonstrable that this variant does not have the same seriousness as the earlier, the delta. In symptoms and also in recuperation time.” López Obrador was infected the first time in January of last year.