SAO PAULO – Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said on May 5 that he had to be hospitalised again in the northern city of Manaus due to a skin infection caused by bacteria, adding that there was no forecast for when he could be discharged.

Mr Bolsonaro said on social media that he was hospitalised again with erysipelas, a skin disease which he had in 2022 and again on May 4, when he was also briefly hospitalised, according to a spokesperson.

Mr Bolsonaro is ineligible for political office until 2030 for spreading electoral misinformation during the 2022 election, when he lost a bid for re-election to the leftist, Mr Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

He also has been formally accused by the police of fraud related to his Covid-19 vaccination records. REUTERS