Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (R) has tested positive for the coronavirus days after meeting with a Brazilian official who later also tested positive for the illness.

“It is confirmed that I have the coronavirus,” Suarez told the Miami Herald. “I did test positive for it.”

Suarez, along with Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE, met with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his staff in South Florida earlier in the week. Suarez has been in isolation since Thursday, when he learned that Fabio Wajngarten, Bolsonaro's press secretary, had tested positive for the virus earlier in the day.

Before isolation, the mayor had been scheduled to declare a state of emergency for the city of Miami at a press conference. Top city officials who were in close contact with Suarez have also been told to self-isolate.