Brazil’s Bolsonaro recovering, hopes to be ‘back in action soon’

The Brazilian president tweeted a stern-faced photo of himself walking in hospital with a drip attached to his neck.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, undergoing hospital treatment for an obstructed intestine after a near-fatal 2018 stabbing, said on Friday he hoped to be “back in action soon”. Bolsonaro has been in hospital since Wednesday, when he travelled from Brasilia to Sao Paulo for treatment relating to complications from the knife attack nearly three years ago. After initial concerns, he required an emergency surgery, and doctors now say he is improving, with an operation less likely. On Friday morning, Bolsonaro tweeted a stern-faced photo of himself, walking along a hospital corridor with a drip attached to his neck.