Mario Vargas Llosa, 87, was urgently hospitalized at the Ruber clinic in Madrid for covid-19 last Saturday. An unexpected setback in health, since it is the second time that the writer has been admitted for this disease, which his children reported through a brief statement through their social networks.
The veteran writer was in his native Peru a few weeks ago, but in recent days he had been seen accompanied by his children and his ex-wife, Patricia Llosa, who also remain with him awaiting news at the hospital.
His children added that “he is being treated by excellent professionals” and it seems that it is having an effect because the latest information is very positive: the writer is stable and has already been transferred to the plant.
The Nobel Prize for Literature already occupies one of the private rooms that the hospital reserves for its VIP patients, and is being treated and covered by all the health personnel.
Good news that will surely ease the tension and nerves of his family, who in recent hours could not control their discomfort with the insistence of the press due to the lack of news about the state of health of the author of La fiesta del chivo, which was He was following a strict isolation protocol as a covid-19 patient showing symptoms, such as high fever.
An isolation that as a rule must last for at least five days, isolated from other patients and of course without visitors, and closely controlled by health personnel, also taking into account their age, where the appearance of symptoms may not be so evident.
Now that he has been transferred to the plant, Vargas Llosa will continue in a semi-isolation regime, since he will not be able to have contact with people who are more at risk of contracting the virus (which could affect his ex-wife, Patricia Llosa, for your age).
In April 2022, Vargas Llosa was also hospitalized for several days with covid-19 in a Madrid hospital. On that occasion, the author of The puppies was still in a relationship with Isabel Preysler, and much of his recovery was done at the socialite’s house.
A moment for which he assured that he would not have wanted to go through again: “It was horrible, a very big scare. My legs trembled a lot. The worst thing was waiting for the ambulance when I had already lost the ability to breathe, it took about two hours and I arrived to the hospital in a comatose state. Those were very difficult hours.”
