Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune flew back to Germany on Sunday for treatment in hospital of complications in his foot resulting from a coronavirus infection, the presidency said.
Tebboune, 75, had returned home two weeks ago from Germany after two months of treatment for COVID-19.
The treatment of the complications "was not medically urgent" and had been due to take place during Tebboune's last stay in Germany, the presidency said in a statement.
At the time, Tebboune decided to postpone the treatment because of some obligations that prompted him to return home on Dec. 29, it said.
A public hospital medic, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, has said that Tebboune’s habit of heavy smoking likely triggered a case of deep vein thrombosis in his leg.
As for why Tebboune had spent some 60 days abroad getting treated for the coronavirus, which is much longer than the average period for treating Covid-19 infections, the physician said that it was probably due to complications in the president’s lungs.
Since the leader’s return to the country on December 29, Algerian media have always shown Tebboune sitting on an armchair, raising questions about his state of health.
