Queiroga tested positive hours after accompanying Bolsonaro to give the first speech from a head of

.... 23, Queiroga, the health minister, provoked further controversy by saying that the number of COVID-19 deaths

booster dose against COVID-19 for people over 50 years old, Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said

SAO PAULO( REUTERS)-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's son and two members of his Cabinet said on Friday( Sept 24) that they had tested positive for Covid-19, bringing to four the number of close aides diagnosed since the far-right leader's trip to the United Nations. Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina, Solicitor-General Bruno Bianco and Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro all confirmed their diagnoses via social media or press representatives. The news comes three days after Health Minister Marce

RIO DE JANEIRO( Reuters)-Brazil will suspend a$ 324 million Indian COVID-19 vaccine contract that has mired President Jair Bolsonaro in accusations of irregularities, the health minister said on Tuesday, following the guidance of the federal comptroller, the CGU.... One Health Ministry official said he alerted the president about his concerns. Bolsonaro, whose popularity has faded as Brazil's COVID-19 death toll climbed past 500, 000, has denied any wrongdoing, saying on Monday he was not aware

A Brazilian health minister who shook hands with a maskless Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus in New York. Marcelo Quiroga sat with the British prime minister and new Foreign Secretary Liz Truss during a bilateral meeting with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday.A statement from the Brazilian government said that Mr Quiroga is currently in good health and will remain in isolation in the US.... The health minister received his first shot of a Covid vaccine in January. The

Open this photo in gallery An activist hangs a Brazilian flag on a clothesline on Copacabana beach amid white scarves that represent people who have died of COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Oct.... The action was organized by the NGO' Rio de Paz'to protest the government's handling of the pandemic as the country nears a total of 600, 000 COVID-19 related deaths.... Bruna Prado/ The Associated PressBars in Sao Paulo are full again for evening happy hours, lawmakers in the capital of