SAO PAULO: Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he had to be hospitalised again in the northern city of Manaus due to a skin infection caused by a bacteria, adding there is no forecast for when he could be discharged.
Bolsonaro said on social media he was hospitalised again with erysipelas, a skin disease which he had in 2022 and again on Saturday, when he was also briefly hospitalised, according to a spokesman.
Bolsonaro is ineligible for political office until 2030 for spreading electoral misinformation during the 2022 election, when he lost a bid for reelection to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
He also has been formally accused by police of fraud related to his Covid-19 vaccination records.