The Fiji Occasions » Brazil’s Lula ‘wonderful’ after pneumonia analysis, will journey to China Sunday

By Lisandra Paraguassu

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been recognized with gentle pneumonia and can delay a deliberate journey to China by a day, leaving on Sunday, the presidential palace and his physician mentioned.

Lula’s doctor, Dr. Roberto Kalil, instructed Reuters that the president is in good well being after present process hospital checks on Thursday evening and is responding nicely to antibiotics.

Lula was initially supposed to go away for China early Saturday for a go to aimed toward refreshing ties with Brazil’s largest export market.

“The president is ok. He has already improved from yesterday to at the moment. The journey on Sunday is maintained,” Kalil mentioned after visiting Lula on the presidential palace earlier on Friday.

The president can be accompanied on the journey by a big delegation that features half a dozen cupboard ministers, plus governors, lawmakers and 240 enterprise leaders, over a 3rd of whom are from Brazil’s farming sector.

Chinese language chief Xi Jinping is ready to satisfy with Lula on Tuesday in Beijing. Lula can even go to Shanghai later within the week.

Most of Lula’s Friday commitments had been canceled, however he’ll nonetheless attend a day assembly with ministers and authorities leaders in Congress, the president’s workplace mentioned.

(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Modifying by Steven Grattan and Rosalba O’Brien)