Two more Brazil ministers test positive for coronavirus
JULY 20, 2020 / 5:08 PM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Two more Brazilian government ministers said on Monday they had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, underscoring a struggle to limit the worlds second-worst outbreak even among the political elite.
Citizenship Minister Onyx Lorenzoni and newly appointed Education Minister Milton Ribeiro both announced their diagnoses and new quarantine measures on social media.
Lorenzoni, a close ally of President Jair Bolsonaro, credited relatively mild symptoms to an anti-malarial drug touted by the president on social media and at public rallies.
I already feel the positive effects, the minister wrote on Twitter about his regimen of chloroquine, along with azithromycin and ivermectin, as a treatment against the virus.
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