PM Lee Covid-19 free after ‘rebound’; catches up with Indonesian President Jokowi

SINGAPORE - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has recovered from Covid-19 after

testing positive twice

over the last three weeks.

He said in a Facebook post on Wednesday night that he was finally free of the virus and was able to catch up with Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his wife, Ibu Iriana, over a lunch of chicken rice.

Mr Widodo was in town to speak at the

Ecosperity Conference

, an annual event on sustainable development organised by Temasek.

In a Facebook post of his own, Mr Widodo thanked PM Lee and his wife, Mrs Lee, for the meal at the Istana, and for the warm conversation they shared.

PM Lee, 71, tested positive for Covid-19

for the first time on May 22

.

He

recovered on May 28

before contracting Covid-19 for a second time on June 1, sharing that his doctors said he had a case of “post-Covid rebound, which happens in 5 to 10 per cent of cases”.

He first tested positive for Covid-19 following a recent string of work trips, which included

visits to South Africa and Kenya.

He was

in Cape Town from May 14 to 16

and in

Nairobi from May 17 to 19

. He had also travelled to Labuan Bajo in Indonesia for the

42nd Asean Summit

from May 9 to 11.

PM Lee’s doctors prescribed anti-viral medication Paxlovid because of his age and advised him to self-isolate until he was asymptomatic.