Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus, further testing being done
Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro before their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 25, 2019. (Xinhua/Ding Lin). Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 13, 2020, Fox News. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus, Fox News can confirm. Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo told Fox News that they are doing further testing to confirm the diagnosis, adding that they expect the second set of testing results later Friday, Fox News reported.
The positive diagnosis comes just days after the right-wing Bolsonaro met with President Trump in Mar-a-Lago.
In the wake of the news out of Brazil, a number of White House officials were called into an urgent meeting in the chief of staff’s office, Fox News is told.
Bolsonaro had been tested after one of his deputies, who was also in attendance at the Florida resort, was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Fabio Wajngarten, the communications secretary for the 64-year-old Brazilian leader who had traveled to Miami for the meeting as well, showed flu symptoms and tested positive for the virus early Wednesday, as reported.
It also comes after Peter Dutton, Australia’s minister for home affairs, tested positive after traveling back from Washington D.C., where he met Attorney General William Barr and Ivanka Trump, as Pan Pacific Agency reported.
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