Bolsonaro’s Inner Circle Rushes to Get Tested: LatAm Virus Wrap
- Bolsonaro met with at least two dozen officials recently
- Latin America has more than 3 million cases, 132,000 deaths
Jair Bolsonaro
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From the foreign minister to the CEO of a state-run bank and the U.S. ambassador to Brazil, everyone who has come into contact with President Jair Bolsonaro -- and there are a lot of them -- is scrambling to get tested following his positive diagnosis.
Bolsonaro, who is rarely seen wearing a mask, met with more than two dozen top officials in the capital Brasilia over the past week. Until his positive test became public Tuesday, he had continued mingling with enthusiastic supporters outside the presidential palace and on weekend outings throughout the pandemic, even at the outset of Covid-19 symptoms.