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Honduras President Says He Has COVID-19

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez wearing a facemask in Tegucigalpa on Monday. (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Michael McDonald Wednesday, 17 June 2020 08:54 AM EDT

The President of Honduras ,Juan Orlando Hernández, says he and his wife are infected with COVID-19.

"Over the weekend I started to feel bad, and today they have diagnosed me with being infected with COVID-19," Hernández, 51, said in a national address Tuesday night.

He said his wife, Ana García de Hernández, is asymptomatic.

Hernandez said he has enough energy to keep working.

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