Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria, pictured in July 2020, has tested positive for coronavirus but says he is"completely asymptomatic" AFP/Nelson ALMEIDASAO PAULO: The governor of Sao Paulo, the state with the highest COVID-19 death toll in hard-hit Brazil, said Wednesday he had tested positive for the new coronavirus and would continue working from quarantine.
"I just received my sixth test result for COVID-19 and unfortunately it came back positive," he said. Brazil has the second-highest number of coronavirus infections and deaths in the world after the United States, at more than 3.1 million and 103,000 respectively.Bolsonaro himself tested positive for the virus last month, spending three weeks in quarantine. Eight of his cabinet ministers and 11 of Brazil's 27 governors, including Doria, have also tested positive.
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