The former president of Paraguay Fernando Lugo placeholder image (2008-2012) tested positive for coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and it is in good condition and “for the moment without any complications,” a press spokesman for the Guasu Front, the largest left-wing group in Paraguay, told Efe on Monday.

Lugo, 69, and current senator of the Guasu Front, is quarantined in his home and cared for by Jorge Querey, also a legislator from that formation, who is a pulmonologist, added the source.

In January 2012, Lugo overcame a lymphatic cancer detected two years earlier and for which he was treated in Brazil.

Paraguay accumulates 4,399 deaths and 221,207 infections of SARS-CoV-2, with an increase in cases in recent weeks that have saturated the public health centers of the South American country, with a population of about seven million inhabitants.

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