Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, has tested positive for
COVID-19.
The president who announced this on Tuesday said he had been
exhibiting symptoms, including high temperature, since Sunday.
A fourth test conducted on Monday on the president showed he
had the virus.
The president had in April said if he got infected, he would
not have to worry as he “wouldn’t feel anything [and] at most, it would be like
a little flu or a little cold”.
At the time, Brazil had recorded 40,000 cases and about
3,000 deaths.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bolsonaro had been
accused of censorship and an attempt to erase the memory of the dead over
inconsistencies with publication of data on the rate of infections in the
country.
In June, Brazil had stopped releasing its total number of
COVID-19 cases and deaths after recording an average of at least one death per
minute.
The country’s health ministry website with the data was
taken down and later brought up within 24 hours without the total figure of
deaths and confirmed cases, as well as the number of active cases.
“I’m telling you right now, the United States left the WHO,
and we’re studying that in the future. Either the WHO works without ideological
bias, or we leave too,” the president had said.
As of Tuesday, Brazil, the second worst-hit country after
the US, has recorded 1.3 million cases of COVID-19, and more than 65,000
deaths.
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