Brazil's Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
Source: Axios
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced Tuesday that he tested positive for coronavirus.
Brazil's coronavirus outbreak is one of the largest in the world, topped only by the U.S., and Bolsonaro has long downplayed the effects of the virus, pushing businesses to reopen over the last few months in order to jumpstart the country's economy.
Social distancing has steadily become less prevalent in the country, according to the influential IHME model.
Brazil's health ministry has frequently qualified its daily coronavirus death tolls with statements indicating the fatalities did not all take place within a 24-hour period, due to delays caused by investigations into the deaths.
Over 1.6 million people have contracted the disease in Brazil, and more than 65,000 have died, per Johns Hopkins data.
Flashback: Bolsonaro had a coronavirus scare earlier this year, when his press secretary tested positive for the disease in March -- days after meeting President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/jair-bolsonaro-tests-positive-coronavirus-brazil-4e807a05-7f4b-4efa-943e-c59a6686f83e.html
More from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/jair-bolsonaro-coronavirus-positive-test-brazil-president
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced live on television he has tested positive for coronavirus.
"It came back positive," a mask-wearing Bolsonaro told a hand-picked group of reporters on Tuesday lunchtime.
Bolsonaro, 65, has repeatedly trivialized the pandemic and flouted social distancing, even as Brazil became the second-worst hit country after the United States, with more than 65,000 deaths and 1.6 million confirmed cases.
In March, as Covid-19 claimed its first victims in Brazil, the far-right populist used an address to the nation to brag that, if infected, he would quickly shake off the illness thanks to his "athlete's background".
Since then, Bolsonaro has continued to attend social events and political rallies, often wearing masks incorrectly, or not wearing them at all.
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Maybe I shouldn't have said it like that.
But you know what I mean. This is, like, his third "close call." He's done everything humanly possible to get it.
"It's just a little flu" - Bolsonaro
Now tRump will be wanting a few million masks made with his orange mug similar to Jair's.
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Boris Johnson, Rand Paul, several others I can think of.
Rest assured, people like that get the finest of medical care. Unlike average people, they won't be faced with "sorry, our ICU is completely full." Not that people don't die of it anyway, but prompt, quality medical care can increase the chances of survival. I'm sur that, if 45 got it, he'd survive, too. And each such type who survives it can then spread the gospel of "See? It's not so bad."
Not recommended to be taken with Hydroxychloroquine or Clorox.
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