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Third Brazil Cabinet Minister with COVID-19 Touts Unproven Drug Cocktail

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Reuters) Brazil’s Citizenship Minister Onyx Lorenzoni said on Monday, July 20th, that he had tested positive for the new coronavirus. He is the country’s third cabinet minister to be infected amid the world’s second-worst outbreak.

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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