Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the president of Brazil and national deputy in that country, tested positive for Covid-19 and in this way he joins the list of members of the entourage that was in the UN General Assembly, in New York, with coronavirus.
The testing tested positive two days after returning from the United States, where two other Bolsonaro officials were detected with the virus, one of them was the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, and another a member of the diplomatic corps.
The announcement of his contagion with coronavirus was made by the son of the Brazilian president himself through Twitter. There he told that, Unlike his father, he had been vaccinated against Covid-19 and had only one dose.
Later He stated that he is “fine” and that he had already started “treatment”, although he did not specify which one. “Despite the diagnosis, I feel fine and began to treat myself immediately,” wrote the defender of something called “early treatment” against the virus, which has no scientific evidence.
The son of the head of state had received the vaccine from Pfizer, but after its contagion he again questioned its effectiveness and questioned the so-called “health passport”.
“We know that vaccines were made faster“ usual, he indicated. “I received the first dose of Pfizer and contracted covid. Does this mean that the vaccine is useless? I don’t think so. But it is one more argument against the health passport,” he added.
The Brazilian delegation returned to the country last Wednesday after a denialist speech delivered by Bolsonaro to the UN, in which he defended the use of remedies of doubtful efficacy against covid-19 and opposed the “health passport.”
His position against vaccines and treatments against the virus is so strong that so far he has not been vaccinated, and this it cost him harsh criticism during his stay in the United States. He contradicted the suggestions of the UN to participate in the General Assembly and even they prohibited him from entering a pizzeria and had to eat on the street for not being immunized.
Two members of the entourage that accompanied him were detected with covid, one of them his Minister of Health, who had to stay in New York to comply with isolation and not spread the virus.
However, Queiroga had participated in various official activities: in a meeting between Bolsonaro and the British prime minister, Boris johnson; and others with various personalities, such as Michelle Bachelet, former Chilean president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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