Will Jair Bolsonaro review his position on the health crisis which is shaking the world and particularly his country? The Brazilian president announced Monday to CNN Brazil that he had certain symptoms of the new coronavirus and that he had undergone a test, the results of which will be known on Tuesday.
O presidente Jair Bolsonaro conversou com o repórter da CNN, Leandro Magalhães, sobre os seus sintomas. Veja: pic.twitter.com/EQvSrQI32p
- CNN Brasil (@CNNBrasil) July 6, 2020Skeptical about the pandemic
The president, who is very skeptical about the Covid-19 pandemic, said that he had a fever of 38 °, and that an X-ray of the lungs had been done at the hospital of the armed forces. In a video recorded by one of his supporters, whom he often addresses at the gates of his official residence in Brasilia, the president, wearing a white mask, said that he had just returned from the hospital. "The lung is clean, okay?" I'm going to do a Covid test in a little while, but everything is fine, "he said after warning that he couldn't get too close to his supporters.
Since the start of the pandemic, Jair Bolsonaro, 65, has minimized the disease and participated in several public events without wearing a mask, while criticizing the isolation measures implemented in several states. On Saturday, he published photos on social networks on which he is uncovered with several ministers and the American ambassador in Brasilia, during a reception on the occasion of the United States' national holiday. Finally, on Monday, he vetoed two articles of the law on the use of masks in public places to prevent the spread of the pandemic in Brazil.
Behind the United States, Brazil is the country most affected by the pandemic with to date 1.6 million cases of Covid-19 for 65,487 deaths.
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