Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on July 7 that he had tested positive for Covid-19. "The positive result [of the test] has just arrived," said the 65-year-old head of state in an interview with several television channels, after having had a fever the day before.

He said the medical tests he had done showed that his lungs were "clean". CNN Brazil and the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo reported that the manager was showing symptoms of the new coronavirus, such as fever.

Since the start of the pandemic, Jair Bolsonaro has regularly downplayed the dangers of the coronavirus, while Brazil is one of the most affected countries in the world, with more than 1.6 million confirmed cases and 65,000 deaths, according to official data released Monday.

The Brazilian president has often ignored directives calling for the mask to be worn, despite a judge's order last month to protect his face.

With AFP and Reuters 

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