Covid-19: these heads of state who have contracted the virus
Donald Trump on the balcony of the White House after his release from Walter Reed Hospital where he was treated after contracting Covid-19, October 5, 2020. AP - Alex Brandon
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Emmanuel Macron is not the first president to be infected with Covid-19.
Overview of international leaders who have already contracted the disease.
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The two most publicized Covid-19 patients were undoubtedly Donald Trump and Boris Johnson.
The US president stubbornly refused to wear a mask and predicted the end
of the pandemic
"
as if by magic
".
The British Prime Minister, meanwhile, boasted of shaking hands with the sick.
Both kept minimizing the dangers of the virus until they were themselves affected by "
this flu
", as Brazilian President
Jair Bolsonaro called
it, who also ended up by contaminate.
The Covid-19 strikes the heads of state - we think of the Polish, Bolivian and Belarusian presidents - just like the heads of government, such as the Russian or Kosovar prime ministers for example Without forgetting the crowned heads: Prince Charles and the Prince Albert of Monaco suffered only mild symptoms of the virus.
Others suffer from more serious forms.
Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune
has been hospitalized for two months in Germany.
► To read also: Macron positive for Covid-19: several personalities forced to isolate themselves
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