Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for Covid-19 hours after accompanying President Jair Bolsonaro to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Tuesday, the Government said.
Queiroga will remain in New York in quarantine, the Government’s communications office said.
“The Minister is doing well,” the statement said. It added that the rest of the delegation tested negative for the virus.
Bolsonaro, a vaccine skeptic, defied UN rules that asked all those attending the Assembly to be vaccinated.
He has bragged about not getting vaccinated.