SAO PAULO: Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who was hospitalized for a bacterial skin infection while campaigning in the Amazon region, is doing well and will be transferred Monday (May 6) to Sao Paulo, his lawyer said.
Bolsonaro should be moved from Manaus later in the day his lawyer and spokesman Fabio Wajngarten told AFP.
Earlier, the former president’s son Eduardo, a lawmaker, said on social media that his father was “doing well, reacting well to antibiotics.” He had said Bolsonaro was to be taken to the capital Brasilia.
The post on X features a picture of the right-wing former president, who was in office from 2019 to 2022, lying down in a hospital gown with sheets partially covering him. The skin of his left shin is severely reddened.
On Sunday, the 69-year-old Bolsonaro announced on X that he had been hospitalized in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, for erysipelas, a bacterial skin infection that can cause pain and fever.
