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Brazil’s health minister steps down amid Zika fight
SAO PAULO – Marcelo Castro, the man who has led Brazil’s fight against the Zika virus, will resign on Wednesday as the country’s health minister.
The Health Ministry’s press office would only say that he will step down by the end of the day.
Castro belongs to the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party that in late March abandoned President Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition and announced that the seven Cabinet ministers belonging to the party had to step down.
The ministers of Science and Technology, Civil Aviation, Mines and Energy, Tourism and Ports have already stepped down.
Agriculture Minister Katia Abreu, a close friend of Rousseff’s, is the only party member still in the Cabinet.
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