Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday that he had tested negative for coronavirus after contracting the disease earlier this month.
On social networks, the leader published a photo saying that he gave a negative, followed by “BOM DIA A TODOS” or “GOOD MORNING FOR ALL” in Portuguese.
– RT-PCR for Sars-Cov 2: negative.
– BOM DAY TO ALL. pic.twitter.com/CkdV59yGXP– Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) July 25, 2020
Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist with close ties to President Trump
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The 65-year-old man announced the same week that he was taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, which has been promoted by Triumph As a treatment for COVID-19, although the medical community has largely warned against it for this purpose.
Tthe FDA ruled in June he would withdraw the emergency use authorization for Hydroxychloroquine, because at that time recent data showed no difference in COVID-19 patients who took the drug and those who did not.
I like it President TrumpBolsonaro has not shied away from public events since the start of the pandemic and has minimized the impact of the disease. The United States and Brazil have the first and second highest number of infections in the world, respectively.
As of Friday, Brazil has reported more than 2.3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 85,000 deaths from the virus. The total makes Brazil the country with the second largest case of COVID-19 behind the United States.
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