Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he had undergone another test for the novel coronavirus, after local media reported he had symptoms associated with the COVID-19 respiratory disease, including a fever.Bolsonaro told supporters outside the presidential palace that he had just visited the hospital and been tested for the virus, adding that an exam had shown his lungs “clean.” Bolsonaro’s concealment of Brazilian coronavirus data a survival move: experts CNN Brasil and newspaper Estado de S.Paulo reported that he had symptoms of the disease, such as a fever.
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