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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that In Manaus, Bolsonaro’s body will be transferred to a hospital in Brasília in an air ICU.
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.
Bolsonaro had been in Manaus, the biggest city in Brazil’s Amazon region, to campaign for Alberto Neto, the Liberal Party candidate for the October mayoral election.
Santa Julia hospital confirmed Bolsonaro had been admitted on Saturday.
Bolsonaro suffered from a similar infection in November 2022, shortly after his election loss to current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. At the time, he remained for several days at his residence in Brasilia.
He has been hospitalized several times in recent years — most recently in September — and has also undergone multiple surgeries after being stabbed in the abdomen during the 2018 presidential campaign.
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