Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro again tested positive for coronavirus, CNN Brazil reported on Wednesday.
The network suggested that the right-wing leader has yet to recover from the virus, which he announced to have a week ago.
CNN Brazil reported that Bolsonaro personally told the network of his new diagnosis, stating that he would take another test in a few days.
Since contracting the virus, the president stated that he remains in good health and announced earlier this week that he would resume his normal work schedule if he tested negative.
On July 7, the Brazilian president announced that had tested positive for coronavirus. In a television interview, Bolsonaro said that he is feeling good despite running a fever.
In the interview broadcast on state-run TV Brasil, Bolsonaro said he began feeling ill on Sunday, July 5, and has been taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug with unproven effectiveness against the virus.
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The Brazilian president downplayed the severity of the virus, calling it a “little flu” even as Brazil’s outbreak became the worst in the world outside the United States, which death toll reaches over 74,000, out of nearly 2 million confirmed cases.
Bolsonaro stated previously that his good physical condition would prevent him from developing serious symptoms if he got ill.
He also sidelined medical experts in Brazil’s handling of the pandemic, pushed back against state and city lockdown, and appeared often in public without a mask, drawing criticism from public health specialists.
The novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, and has infected more than one million people and killed over 234,139 worldwide. It also hit several celebrities and top political figures around the world.
The virus is a new member of the Coronaviruses group, which was never identified in humans. The viruses’ family also includes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), which cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases.
Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Humans and animals such as mammals and birds can be affected by the disease.
The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”.
On February 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19, taken from the words “corona”, “virus” and “disease”.
In December 2019, an outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 800,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
Transmission of viruses between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.
Coronavirus can also be transmitted by coming into contact with something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes.
It is known that older people appear to be more vulnerable to the effects of the emerging virus.
The virus caused complete paralysis in all activities and events with large gatherings worldwide due to concerns over the spread of the virus.
People across the globe partake in self-isolation for 14 days as an effective precautionary measure to protect those around them and themselves from contracting COVID-19.
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