22 Brazilians who visited Donald Trump in Florida have the disease, including two members of Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet
Augusto Heleno. Picture: REUTERS/ADRIANO MACHADO
Heleno is now one of nearly two dozen confirmed coronavirus cases that have surfaced among Brazilians who travelled to Florida earlier this month to hobnob with US officials. Bolsonaro and senior aides met with US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, while a larger contingent gathered with lawmakers and business leaders at a Miami hotel and other events.
Bolsonaro and Heleno were among those who continued to circulate in public while awaiting their results, much to the dismay of Brazil’s medical community Brazilian doctors have not established a definitive transmission chain and cannot say for certain whether the group was infected in the US. The country trailed several of its neighbours in tightening its land borders. Bolsonaro’s administration waited until March 17 to ask Congress to declare the state of emergency. Brazil, like the US and other late-movers, is now scrambling to produce millions of test kits.State governors and mayors, meanwhile, have taken the lead in closing public venues and asking Brazilians to stay home. Many private-sector companies have directed employees to work remotely.
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