March 7, 2024
MANILA – Circulating rumors that former first lady Imelda Marcos is dead are untrue, said the Palace on Thursday.
Presidential Communications Secretary Cheloy Garafil told reporters that this was fake news.
The Marcos matriarch was confined in the hospital due to pneumonia, according to her daughter, Senator Imee Marcos, on Tuesday. She had bouts of fevers and coughs.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was in Australia at the time for the Asean-Australia Summit while his mother was in the hospital.
In an X post, the President said that she had been put on antibiotics to treat her illness.
“The doctors are confident that this will relieve her fever. She is in good spirits, has no difficulty in breathing and is resting well. I thank the Filipino public for their concern and prayers,” said Ferdinand Marcos Jr.