Ex-Brazil President Rousseff discharged from Shanghai hospital

Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, now the head of the BRICS bloc's development bank, has been discharged from a hospital in Shanghai after nearly a week hospitalized, her press office said on Friday.

Rousseff, 77, was admitted to the Shanghai East International Medical Center on February 21 due to a case of inflammation of the balance nerve, formally known as vestibular neuritis, and responded well to the treatment.

Rousseff, Brazil's first woman president, ran the country from 2011 until being impeached in 2016 during a harsh recession and falling from power.

She was tapped in 2023 to lead the New Development Bank (NDB), which is headquartered in the Chinese city.

"Dilma Rousseff was discharged yesterday and is already working normally at the headquarters of the NDB," her press office said in a statement shared on social media.