Caetano Veloso, a living legend of Brazilian music, tested positive at Covid-19: the 79-year-old singer himself announced it on social media, adding that he is "fine" thanks to the vaccine.
"After a week of negative results in the daily tests required by television program productions, Paulinha (Lavigne, his wife, ed) and I tested positive for Covid-19", wrote the musician on twitter from Bahia, his region of Italy. 'origin, where he has been for five days.
"We are doing well and we attribute it to being vaccinated," added Caetano Veloso, who received his third dose in October in Rio de Janeiro, where he resides. "Those who can must take the test. And above all complete the vaccination cycle - he said -. The pandemic is not over and the new variant is very contagious", he added, without specifying whether the infection is due to the Omicron variant.
"Caetano", a recent winner with his son Tom Veloso of a Latin Grammy for the recording of the year with the song "Talvez", also criticized the president Jair Bolsonaro, of which he is an opponent.
"It is unacceptable that the federal government obstructs the program approved by Anvisa for vaccinating children," he wrote, referring to the vaccination of children between the ages of 5 and 11 approved by the Brazilian health agency (Anvisa) and that the government he wanted to limit it to cases where there is a medical prescription.
"May the Brazilian state free itself from this government," concluded the musician, one of the leaders of "tropicalism", a libertarian movement that revolutionized Brazilian music in the 1960s.