Near Chilean General Election, Favorite Candidate Gets Covid-19

jpnn.com, CHILE - Chile's presidential candidate Gabriel Boric, a left-wing figure and one of the top candidates in pre-election polls, said on Wednesday that he had tested positive for Covid-19 and would self-isolate.

The self-isolation measure comes less than three weeks before the vote in the Andean nation.

In a post on Twitter, Boric (35), a former centre-left student leader, said he had just received a positive test result.

He asked people who had come into contact with him to follow pandemic protocols.

The leader of the left-wing coalition, Frente Amplio, had been in preventive isolation earlier this week when he posted information that he was suffering from a fever.

Boric's condition poses a challenge for his team ahead of the vote on November 21.

Boric is just behind the ultra-conservative candidate Jose Antonio Kast in election polls.

Many surveys suggest the left wing is likely to win the second round in December.