No information given about the health of 67-year-old Mourao, who quarantined at his official residence. It has announced that the Brazilian Vice President, Hamilton Mourao, has caught a new type of corona virus (Covid-19).

According to the statement made by Mourao’s press team, the result of the Covid-19 test being positive.

It stated that the Brazilian Vice President quarantined at Jaburu Palace, the official residence.

No details on the health status of Mourao, 67, included.

In Brazil, where 12 ministers caught Covid-19 so far. President Jair Bolsonaro’s Covid-19 test was also positive in July.

In Brazil, whose population exceeds 210 million and is the third country most affected by the epidemic in the world. The virus, which cost the lives of 191 thousand 139 people, has been seen in 7 million 484 thousand 285 people so far.