Summary Revolutionary leader of South Africa is said to be comfortable after seventh day in hospital.
PRETORIA - Nelson Mandela is receiving treatment for a lung infection.
Officials said the ageing statesman s doctors continued to see progress in his condition.
"I can confirm that doctors say he has had a comfortable 24 hours. He remains under treatment in hospital," presidential spokesman and former Mandela prison mate Mac Maharaj told AFP.
Maharaj dismissed rumours that the 94-year-old could be promptly discharged.
"The doctors have made no such recommendation or report to the president," he said, refusing to speculate on when Mandela would be released.
The comments came amid confusion over where the anti-apartheid icon was being treated.
On Monday South Africa s defence minister confirmed he was being cared for by doctors at the One Military hospital in Pretoria.
But amid reports that he has since been moved to the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, an AFP reporter at the site witnessed several state security cars entering and leaving the location.
The apparent change of treatment venue prompted allegations that the government misled the public about Mandela s health and whereabouts.
The Heart Hospital bills itself as the first and "only hospital of its kind -- a private, specialised heart hospital -- in South Africa."
The facility also includes a number of other specialised nursing units.
Maharaj denied allegations that the government had prompted the type of speculation it urged the media to avoid.
"It is not part of any strategy or tactics by government to mislead the public. We have never had that intention, we know to keep to the facts, and we have been rigorous," he said.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner was flown from his rural home village of Qunu to Pretoria last Saturday.
The former president who led South Africa to democracy in 1994 has a long history of lung problems dating back decades when he contracted tuberculosis while in prison.
He was previously hospitalised for an acute respiratory infection in January 2011, when he was kept for two nights.
