Maximum concern: Mario Vargas Llosa, admitted for Covid-19 at 87 years old

Mario Vargas Llosa, at 87 years old, is hospitalized for Covid-19. His three sons, Alvaro, Gonzalo y Morgana They have been in charge of making it public this Monday, July 3 with a statement through social networks.

“In view of the interest of the media in our father’s state of health, we make public that he has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19. He is being treated by excellent professionals and accompanied by his family. We ask the media communication to respect your privacy and ours at this time,” they wrote on Twitter.

In view of the media’s interest in our father’s state of health, we make public that he has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19. He is being treated by excellent professionals and accompanied by his family. We urge the media…

— Álvaro Vargas Llosa (@AlvaroVargasLl) July 3, 2023

Álvaro has been in charge of sharing his father’s state of health on behalf of the three children of the author of The city and the Dogs. It must be remembered that the intellectual also caught Covid at the beginning of 2022. On that occasion he also had to be hospitalized after testing positive. A few days later, he was discharged.

At his age he is a risk patient. “The coronavirus was an unpleasant experience because my legs began to feel very cold and, suddenly, I began to lose my breath, to suffocate, to breathe with great difficulty,” she came to confess.

Since the break with Isabella Preysler At the end of last year, the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner found shelter in the company of his children, who have been close to him in recent months. Also in Patricia Llosawith whom he reconciled after separating in 2015.