Buenos Aires, July 3 (Mercopress-RHC) -- Argentinian President Cristina Fernández has been forced to call off all official activities following a “pharyngeal laryngitis condition” with the medical team in charge of the head of state’s health deciding on at least a 24-hour period of rest.

The statement by the Presidential Medical Unit (UMP), signed by doctors Marcelo Ballesteros and Daniel Fernández, reads: “Besides the associated treatment and evolution controls, a 24-hour rest was indicated, leading (President Fernandez) to suspend the scheduled activities for today and the trip she was going to make to Paraguay tonight”.

Government spokesman, Alfredo Scoccimarro, said that the president’s visit to Paraguay was being re-scheduled for mid- August.

In a rally on Tuesday at the government house, marking the 40th anniversary of the death of ex president Juan Domingo Perón, Cristina Fernández showed some vocal problems while giving her speech and said she had caught laryngitis from her grandson, Néstor Iván.