Jair Bolsonaro at the UN: the Brazilian Minister of Health caught the covid | You will need to quarantine in the United States

Brazilian Minister of Health Marcelo Queiroga (Photo), who’s in New York with the president Jair Bolsonaro on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly, announced on Tuesday that tested positive for coronavirus.

“I am informing everyone that today I tested positive for covid-19. I will be quarantined in the United States, by following all health security protocols, ”the minister said on his social networks.

Same plane

The government said in a note that Queiroga, who is vaccinated against the coronavirus, is “fine” and reported that the rest of the Brazilian delegation underwent a diagnostic test and tested negative.

Queiroga arrived in New York on Sunday in the same plane as Bolsonaro, whom he accompanied on Monday during his bilateral meeting with the British Prime Minister., Boris Johnson.

Meetings

Next He met Brazilian researchers operating in the United States and attended a dinner given in Bolsonaro at the official residence of the Brazilian Ambassador to the UN.

Before, the minister left a controversial image by gesturing to certain demonstrators protesting against the Brazilian head of state in the vicinity of the hotel where they are staying.

This Tuesday, Queiroga accompanied Bolsonaro to the plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly, where they met the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, and with the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.

Denial

Bolsonaro, who denies the seriousness of SARS-CoV-2, today opened the leaders’ speeches at the General Assembly, hencee criticized social distancing measures to fight the pandemic and vaccination certificates that some countries are starting to require.

“We support vaccination”, but not the “sanitary passport”, declared the president, who assures that he has not yet been vaccinated and does not intend to do so before the “last” Brazilian.

Bolsonaro’s resistance to being vaccinated has sparked various controversies in New York, whose mayor, Bill de Blasio, criticized the position of the Brazilian president.

Cocktail

Bolsonaro also took advantage of his intervention at the UN to defend a controversial drug cocktail sponsored by your government to fight the pandemic and which includes non-scientifically proven drugs against the coronavirus, such as chloroquine.

More … than 591,000 deaths and 21.2 million of positives, Brazil is the second country with the most deaths from covid-19, behind the United States, and the third with the most infections, after the North American nation and India.