Brazil’s hard-Right president Jair Bolsonaro said he has tested negative for the coronavirus, despite media reports to the contrary.

On his official Facebook and Twitter pages, Bolsonaro announced that his exams came back negative, accompanied by a photo of the president making an offensive gesture.

Mr Bolsonaro was instructed to take the test after his press secretary Fabio Wajngarten tested positive for the virus on Thursday. Mr Wajngarten had recently accompanied the president on an official trip to the United States, where Brazil's head of state met with Donald Trump and US vice president Mike Pence.

Mr Bolsonaro announced his negative test amid confusion after a government source told Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Dia that the president had tested positive.

Mr Bolsonaro's case had come under extra scrutiny after he had dinner with Mr Trump on Saturday at the US president's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

Later that evening Mr Bolsonaro and Mr Wajngarten attended the birthday party of Fox News journalist Kimberly Guilfoyle, where Mr Trump was also in attendance. Ms Guilfoyle is currently dating the US president's son, Donald Trump Jr.