Bolsanaro’s medical team revealed the results of the test in a statement July 22, which also said the president is in good condition. Due to his latest coronavirus test, Bolsonaro’s advisers told that his planned trips to the Brazilian states of Bahia and Piauí in the coming days are currently on hold.

Bolsanaoro said he and four ministers in his administration are treating their infections with the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, despite scientists saying there was no medical evidence to support its effectiveness.

Bolsanaro has been criticized for his management of the health crisis.

He fired two health ministers amid the pandemic and has openly opposed measures to curb the virus, including wearing face masks and practicing social distancing.

Brazil has the most COVID-19 cases in Latin America, with more than 2.1 million infections and more than 80,100 deaths.

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Earlier Bolsonaro tested negative thrice in March after meeting with the US President Donald Trump in Florida. However several members of his delegation to US were later reported to infected with the virus.

“I’m well, normal. I even want to take a walk around here, but I can’t due to medical recommendations,” Bolsonaro said.

The president has often appeared in public to shake hands with supporters and mingle with crowds, at times without a mask. He has said that his history as an athlete would protect him from the virus and that it would be nothing more than a “little flu” were he to contract it.

He has also repeatedly said that there is no way to prevent 70 percent of the population falling ill with covid-19 and that local authorities’ measures to shut down economic activity would ultimately cause more hardship than allowing the virus to run its course.

Brazil, the world’s sixth most populous nation, with more than 210 million people, is one of the global hot spots of the pandemic.

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