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Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

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Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday.This comes a day after the president said his lungs were “clean” after taking a COVID-19 test.

Local media reported he had symptoms associated with the respiratory disease.Bolsonaro has repeatedly played down the impact of the virus, even as Brazil has suffered one of the world’s worst outbreaks, with more than 1.6 million confirmed cases and 65,000 related deaths, according to official data on Monday.Bolsonaro told supporters outside the presidential palace that he had just visited the hospital and been tested.“I can’t get very close,” he said in comments recorded by Foco do Brasil, a pro-government YouTube channel. “I came from the hospital.

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