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htuttle

(23,738 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 11:05 AM Mar 2020

"Wajngarten tests positive for coronavirus; Bolsonaro is monitored" (met with Trump over weekend)

Just translated the above headline from twitter.

Here's the setup from yesterday:
Brazilian Official Who Met Trump Testing for Coronavirus - Paper
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-03-11/brazilian-official-who-met-trump-testing-for-coronavirus-paper

BRASILIA (REUTERS) - A Brazilian government official who attended an official meeting at Donald Trump's resort in Florida on Saturday and posted a photo of himself standing next to the U.S. president is being tested for coronavirus, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper said on Wednesday.

Reuters could not independently confirm the report.

Fabio Wajngarten is Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's communications secretary and he accompanied the far-right leader on a visit to Florida that included dinner with Trump at Mar-A-Lago.

In response to the article, Wajngarten wrote on Twitter that he is healthy. However, he did not deny that he tested for the virus after returning to Brazil.

(snip)

In the photo he posted on Instagram, Wajngarten is standing next to Trump wearing a "Make Brazil great again" cap. Vice President Mike Pence was next to Trump.

Brazil's Health Ministry has so far reported 52 confirmed cases of the virus that the World Health Organization has now labeled a pandemic, but has not had any deaths.





Confirmed:


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