Queiroga was vaccinated against Covid in January, two months before being made health minister, and shared a video of the moment on Twitter.
Brazil’s health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, has tested positive for Covid and gone into isolation, 24 hours after meeting a maskless Boris Johnson and other British officials in New York.
Queiroga, who sat close to Johnson and the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, on Monday during their meeting with Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, announced his positive test on Twitter on Tuesday night.
Queiroga, 55, a cardiologist, was filmed shaking hands with Johnson and patting the prime minister on the arm during Monday’s gathering at the consulate general’s house in New York.
Bolsonaro, who has dismissed Covid as a “little flu”, used his speech to the UN assembly to attack lockdown and isolation measures, which he falsely claimed caused inflation, and to tout ineffective and potentially harmful coronavirus “remedies”, known in Brazil as “early treatment”.
“We do not understand why many countries – along with a large part of the media – opposed ‘early treatment’,” Brazil’s far-right leader told world leaders, announcing that he himself had taken such drugs, which include the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine and the antiparasitic ivermectin.
My spirit does not "trust" this Queiroga character, and I think they are trying to somehow target Bolsonaro
A joke? There is no sure test for this Covid BS, yet Patriots are still talking about people testing positive. Just keep fueling the fire.
The joke is on them! this is not about people testing positive.
This is about their web of lies and deception.
This is what they are saying
A masked vaccinated person is getting infected by a maskless vaccinated person.
So they have to accept.
Vax don't work
Masks don't work
Tests don't work
Or everything is a lie
Isn't there an incubation period before a person produces enough "virus" before it shows on a test?
Yes, that's why I do not trust him or the report, there is some evil plan behind this.
The irony continues.
And BTW Vaccinated Brazilian health minister who got the covid was wearing the mask!!