Tue 07 July 2020:
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro announced Tuesday that he has tested positive for coronavirus.
“I feel good, all normal,” Bolsonaro said in a live interview on state-run TV Brasil, after announcing his test results.
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced live on television he has tested positive for coronavirus.
“It came back positive,” a mask-wearing Bolsonaro told a hand-picked group of reporters on Tuesday lunchtime outside his official residence.
He noted that he will follow the guidelines and will work through video conference.
Bolsonaro took the test, for the fourth time, on Monday after showing symptoms, including a fever began Sunday.
The president has been facing severe backlash since the beginning of the outbreak for downplaying threats of the virus, calling the disease a “little flu”.
Bolsonaro’s response to the coronavirus has sparked a domestic and international outcry, with many directly blaming him for the high death toll. Brazil currently lacks a permanent health minister after two were forced from their jobs in less than a month after clashing with Bolsonaro over the pandemic.
Brazil is the epicenter of Latin America and second worst-hit country by the pandemic with over 1.6 million cases and nearly 65,500 fatalities, according to running tally of US-based Johns Hopkins University.
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