BRASILIA (HRNW) – Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for Covid-19 Tuesday after attending the UN General Assembly in New York that was inaugurated by his president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to an official statement.
“The other members of the delegation have been tested and are negative,” said the official Brazilian government press release.
Queiroga, who had received a Covid-19 vaccine, was the second member of Bolsonaro’s entourage to test positive for the virus since arriving in New York for the UN gathering.
The 55-year-old health minister will remain in the United States for a period of isolation, even though the rest of the delegation has returned to Brazil.
Bolsonaro, who appeared without a mask on several occasions during the trip, has not been not vaccinated and repeated that he would be “the last” Brazilian to receive the vaccine.
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