Brazilian Official Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Days After Meeting Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Brazilian Official Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Days After Meeting Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Brazil's presidential press office, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, center, stands with President Donald Trump, second from left, Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Brazil's Communications Director Fabio Wajngarten, behind Trump partially covered, during a dinner in Florida on March 7, 2020. Alan Santos/Brazil's Presidential Press Office via AP
Jack Phillips
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A Brazilian official who met with President Donald Trump at his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago tested positive for the new coronavirus, which causes a disease called COVID-19.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s communications secretary, Fabio Wajngarten, as well as Bolsonaro himself, met with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence last week. Photos on Wajngarten’s Instagram showed him standing next to Trump and Pence at Mar-a-Lago with the caption: “Make Brazil Great Again.”
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