It also had warned 'people who have had close contact' in recent days with the president, the text of the message said.

Uribe traveled to and from the summit in the same aircraft as Foreign Relations Minister Jaime Bermudez, Defense Minister Gabriel Silva, armed forces commander Gen. Freddy Padilla, Velasquez and several journalists.

The Colombian leader Sunday was resting at his home in Llano Grande, a rural area of the municipality of Rionegro, near Medellin, his illness is 'under control' and he is 'being attended by experts', Velasquez said.

The first case of swine flu was detected in Colombia May 3 and the country's first fatality from the disease occurred June 4.

To date, 29 people have died in Colombia as a result of the AH1N1 virus, according to officials with the Social Protection Ministry and the INS.