SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s son and two members of his cabinet said on Friday that they had tested positive for COVID-19, bringing to four the number of close aides diagnosed since the far-right leader’s trip to the United Nations. The news comes three days after Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga announced that he had tested positive while on a trip to the U.N. General Assembly in New York. He tweeted that he had tested positive for COVID-19, adding that he had been vaccinated with the first dose of the Pfizer shot. “I have tested positive for #Covid19. Bianco’s press office said he is asymptomatic and isolated, adding that he had taken the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Source: MetroXpress September 24, 2021 14:26 UTC