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Marion Mcmullen looks at the world leaders to have tested positive for Covid-19

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AMERICAN president Donald Trump has returned to the White House after being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre. The 74-year-old was diagnosed with the virus, along with his wife Melania, and tweeted before his hospital departure: “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life”.

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BRITISH Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed he could have died when he contracted coronavirus, which saw him taken into intensive care in April with worsening symptoms. The 56-year-old was the first major world leader confirmed to have Covid-19 and his symptoms dramatically worsened a day after he was admitted for what were called routine tests. He was given oxygen but did not need a ventilator.

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RUSSIAN prime minister Mikhail Mishustin tested positive in April as cases of the virus rose there. The 54-year-old, pictured below, had only taken up office four months earlier and his deputy had to step up to oversea the handling of the growing number of infections in the country.

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THE Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernandez announced in June that he had tested positive, along with two other people who worked closely with him. The 51-year-old said he had started what he called the “MAIZ treatment”, an experimental and unproven combination of microdacyn, azithromycin, ivermectin and zinc. He was briefly treated in hospital and then released.

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ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO, the president of Belarus, has dismissed concerns about the virus as “psychosis” and was slammed for recommending drinking vodka to stay healthy. The 66-year-old, right, said in July that he had contracted Covid-19 himself but that he was asymptomatic. Belarus is one of the few countries to have taken no comprehensive measures against the virus.

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BRAZILIAN president Jair Bolsonaro announced his illness in July and used it to promote hydroxychloroquine, the unproven malaria drug he had been advocating as a treatment for Covid-19 and was taking himself. The 65-year-old, right, had flouted social distancing attending demonstrations for months beforehand and was often seen without a mask.

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ARMENIAN Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, aged 45, announced via Facebook that he and his family had recovered from coronavirus and that he had probably contracted it from a waiter who brought him a glass of water at a meeting, without wearing gloves, and later tested positive.

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THE Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei, aged 64, said he tested positive for the virus in September. “My symptoms are very mild. Up to now, I have body aches, it hurt more yesterday than today, like a bad cold,” he said during a televised address, adding: “I don’t have a fever, I have a bit of a cough.”

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THE newlyelected president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader contracted and recovered from Covid-19 during his campaign. The 53-year-old spent weeks in isolation before the country’s July election.

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THE virus drove the Bolivian interim president Jeanine Anez into isolation in July. She said she and her son had tested positive, but that she was feeling well. In April, she and her cabinet pledged to donate half of their monthly salaries to help those affected by the pandemic.