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Eugene

(61,899 posts) Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:58 AM Mar 2020

Brazil's Bolsonaro to be tested again for coronavirus: report

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MARCH 13, 2020 / 11:48 AM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Brazil's Bolsonaro to be tested again for coronavirus: report

Debora Moreira, Pedro Fonseca
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who met with Donald Trump in the United States less than a week ago, will be retested for coronavirus following a negative test on Friday, Brazil’s Estado de S.Paulo newspaper reported.

The test will be done early next week in order to rule out any chance the president has the virus, the newspaper said, without naming the source of the information. A representative for Bolsonaro’s press office declined to comment.

Bolsonaro and a large Brazilian entourage, including cabinet ministers, met with Trump and other senior U.S. officials last weekend at Mar-a-Lago. One of the party, Bolsonaro’s communications secretary Fabio Wajngarten, tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and is in quarantine at his home.

Charge d’Affairs Nestor Forster Jr. at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, who was also present at the Trump dinner, has also now tested positive, GloboNews television channel reported late on Friday.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro to be tested again for coronavirus: report (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2020 OP

... Anon-C Mar 2020 #1

Oh really? Is he not feeling well? SunSeeker Mar 2020 #2

Wonderful they are retesting potential asymptotic/incubating spreaders at the highest levels. pat_k Mar 2020 #3

Anon-C

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Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:04 AM

Mar 2020

SunSeeker

(51,557 posts)

2. Oh really? Is he not feeling well?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 04:17 AM

Mar 2020

Nice to be able to get a test. None of doctor's patients here in California are able to get one.

pat_k

(9,313 posts)

3. Wonderful they are retesting potential asymptotic/incubating spreaders at the highest levels.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 04:26 AM

Mar 2020

What about the rest of us?

When will we have any sort of useful or meaningful surveillance testing to identify and quarantine potential "spreaders" among us regular folk? (symptoms or no symptoms)?

There are still parts of the country where we can "close the barn door." However, we can only do this with REAL data on hotpots and rates of infection.

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