Brazilian Supreme Court orders probe into Bolsonaro for linking COVID-19 vaccines to AIDS

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends a signing decrees ceremony of gas assistance in Brasilia, Brazil December 2, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered on Friday that a probe be opened into President Jair Bolsonaro for having said during a live broadcast on multiple social media platforms in October that COVID-19 vaccines may raise the chance of contracting AIDS.

Bolsonaro, who has declined to take the vaccine, was temporarily suspended from both Facebook and YouTube after his comments.