Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has sought repeatedly to minimize the novel coronavirus as he urges his country back to work, said Tuesday he has tested positive for it.

Bolsonaro, an outlier among world leaders in his skepticism of the virus and measures intended to curb it, was tested Monday evening after developing symptoms that included a fever.

“There’s no problem,” he told reporters Tuesday. “It’s natural. There’s no dread. It’s life.”The result adds one more case to what has become the world’s second-worst outbreak, after that of the United States.

Brazil has reported more than 1.6 million cases and 65,000 deaths — both believed to be undercounts — an escalating disaster that scientists and health officials say has been exacerbated by Bolsonaro’s frequent dismissal of it.

And like the rump...he never thought it would happen to him....

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