Brazil ex-President Bolsonaro admitted in ICU with pneumonia

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has pneumonia and is receiving treatment in an intensive care unit, a hospital in the capital, Brasilia, said Friday.

Earlier in the day, Bolsonaro’s eldest son Flavio said on X that his father was being transferred from prison to the hospital after waking up with chills and vomiting.

“I ask for prayers that it not be anything serious,” Flavio wrote. He has said he will run for president this year, and recent polls show him and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva almost



tied.

Jair Bolsonaro, 70, is serving a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup, after he was convicted last year by a panel of Supreme Court justices.

He was admitted to the hospital after experiencing high fever, low oxygen, sweating and chills, DF Star Hospital said in a statement. Exams confirmed bronchopneumonia, a type of pneumonia, likely caused by aspiration.

“He is currently hospitalised in the intensive care unit, receiving IV antibiotics and non-invasive clinical support,” the hospital said.