The positive in Covid-19 of a son of President Jair Bolsonaro who was part of the official delegation of Brazil that traveled this week to the UN was added this Friday to that of the
Minister of Health,
Marcelo Queiroga, who remains in quarantine in New York, and turned on global alerts.
Federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, the third of the president's children, was diagnosed with the coronavirus
just two days after the return
of the Brazilian delegation that traveled to the United States and is the third member of the Brazilian official delegation to contract the virus.
"Despite the diagnosis, I feel fine and began to treat myself immediately," Eduardo Bolsonaro, who, like his father, is a
defender of the so-called "early treatment
", wrote on his Twitter account
,
despite the lack of scientific evidence.
The president's son thus joins a diplomat and the Minister of Health, who participated in events with various authorities, such as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, today the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. .
Queiroga tested positive when the delegation was preparing to return to Brazil and after Bolsonaro
defended before the UN the use of drugs of doubtful efficacy
against covid-19 and opposed the requirement of a "health passport."
This Friday, the son of the head of state, who is inoculated with the first dose of the vaccine against the disease, again
questioned the "health passport"
and the effectiveness of the immunizers.
"We know that the vaccines were made faster (than usual)," said Eduardo Bolsonaro.
"I received the first dose of Pfizer and contracted COVID.
Does this mean that the vaccine is useless? I don't think so. But it is one more argument against the health passport," he completed.
In New York, however, the positive of Queiroga, who remains in quarantine in the city, ignited the alerts of the international community.
After his diagnosis, the Brazilian office at the United Nations suspended face-to-face activities in the General Assembly and all officials went to work remotely.
Already in Brazil, the National Health Surveillance Agency
recommended that the 18 members
of the Brazilian delegation, including the president and his son,
remain isolated
for 14 days after their return, for having had contact with the head of Health.
The recommendations are extended to
six of the 23 ministers
of the country, who accompanied the president to New York and among whom are the heads of Foreign Relations, Carlos França;
Justice, Anderson Torres;
Environment, Joaquim Leite;
and Tourism, Gilson Machado, as well as the first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro.
Other members of the Government test positive
Also this Friday, the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina Dias, and the Union's General Counsel, Bruno Bianco, announced that they have contracted the covid, although neither of them was part of the official delegation that was at the United Nations.
"I inform everyone that I tested positive for # Covid19. I am fine.
I canceled my face-to-face commitments and will remain in isolation
during the medical orientation period," the head of Agriculture announced on Twitter.
For its part, Bianco's press office reported in a note that the general counsel is without symptoms but that he also canceled his official schedule to comply with the quarantine.
The two senior officials join an extensive list of Brazilian authorities who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, which includes
more than half of Bolsonaro's ministers,
a score of governors and the head of state himself. , who until today did not receive the vaccine against the disease.
With about 213 million inhabitants, Brazil is, in absolute terms, one of the three countries most affected by the pathogen, next to the United States and India.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, nineteen months ago, the Latin American giant has already accumulated more than 592,000 deaths and 21.3 million infected by the pathogen.
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