Overview
- On Friday morning President Claudia Sheinbaum posted that she had woken with a strong flu, cough and fever and that doctors advised her to rest.
- The daily Mañanera proceeded under Secretary of Gobernación Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez and INAH director Joel Omar Vázquez Herrera, who presented scheduled archaeological items.
- Planned in-person events for the day, including a supervision of Mexico City’s Metro Line 12, were canceled or postponed because of the president’s illness.
- Despite the rest recommendation Sheinbaum worked remotely later that day, appearing with a face mask in a virtual meeting with IMSS officials and several governors.
- Officials publicly characterized the condition as a routine flu rather than COVID-19 and framed the absence as a short-term pause that the presidency says did not disrupt government continuity.