Bolsonaro stroll outside palace during virus recovery

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, who's tested positive for coronavirus, took a stroll Tuesday in garden of his official residence, Alvora Palace, where he's in isolation.

During his walk, Bolsonaro talked with members of his staff and watched emus that roam palace grounds,

president, 65, said last week that he h experienced fever, aches and malaise.

He scrapped a trip he h planned to rastern Piauí state, and all his meetings for week were converted to video calls.

After months in which he downplayed COVID-19 by flouting social distancing recommendations and mostly shunning masks, both coronavirus precautions became part of his cloistered life at official residence in capital Brasilia.

Bolsonaro took hydroxychloroquine pills for five days, Monday through Friday, according to a source in presidential medical team.

drug has proven effect on treatment of COVID-19 and can cause side effects such as cardiac arrhythmia, according to medical studies.

As a result, Bolsonaro was given electrocardiograms and blood tests, source said.

Brazil's presidential press office said in a statement that president has experienced medical problems with his treatment.