Brazil’s Lula da Silva cancels trip to China after being diagnosed with bacterial and viral bronchopneumonia caused by influenza
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his health minister, Nisia Trindade, attend the relaunch ceremony of a government medical programme in capital, Brasilia, on Monday.
"Despite clinical improvement, the medical service of the Presidency of the Republic recommends postponing the trip to China until the viral transmission cycle ends," the note stated. Lula's five-day visit to China was billed as a reset of relations with his country's largest export market, which was marred during the term of his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.Lula was to meet Xi Jinping on March 28 in Beijing, becoming the first foreign leader to visit the Chinese leader since he secured a precedent-breaking third term as president.
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