Donald Trump joins growing list of leaders infected by coronavirus

Most have recovered without the serious complications seen in some cases of Covid-19

French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. According to a statement by the Elysee Palace, Macron has tested positive for coronavirus. EPA

Ekrem Imamoglu - Istanbul mayor (October 24) has been hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus and suffering a fever. Istanbul Mayor's Office via AP

Andrzej Duda - Polish president (October 24). The 48-year-old conservative leader was tested on Friday, and his spokesman Błażej Spychalskhi reported he was feeling well and was in isolation. AFP

Boyko Borissov - Bulgarian Prime Minister (October 25) tested positive after a deputy minister who he had been in contact with tested positive for coronavirus. EPA

Donald Trump – US President (October 2) Less than a day after announcing he had tested positive for Covid-19, Trump was hospitalized at Walter Reed medical centre, and remained in isolation until October 10, held his first public event since his diagnosis, delivering a highly political speech to a crowd of supporters packed on the White House's South Lawn. Reuters

M. Venkaiah Naidu - Indian Vice President (September 29) tested positive while undergoing a routine COVID-19 test. His office reported that he was asymptomatic and in good health, and was advised to home quarantine. Hindustan Times via Getty Images

Alejandro Giammattei - Guatemalan President (September 18) After testing positive Giammattei described his symptoms as body aches and a dry cough, and that he was on a nebulizer to avoid pulmonary complications. AFP

Alexander Lukashenko - Belarus' leader (July 28 ) contracted coronavirus after he repeatedly dismissed the threat posed by the virus, publicised home remedies and refused to shut down his country but recovered without suffering any symptoms, state-run news agency Belta reported. BelTA Pool Photo via AP

Jeanine Áñez - Bolivia's interim president (July 9) tested positive and posted a video on her Twitter account. "I feel good, I feel strong, I will continue to work virtually from my isolation.” AFP

Jair Bolsonaro - Brazil's President (July 7), the Far-right president contracted the virus after he repeatedly trivialized the Covid-19 pandemic. AFP

Isatou Touray - Gambia Vice President (July 29) has tested positive for COVID-19, leading President Adama Barrow to enter self-isolation for the next two weeks, the presidency reported. Reuters

Juan Orlando Hernandez - Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez (June 16 ) became the first president in Latin America to test positive for the virus. His wife and two aides also tested positive. AFP

Luis Abinader -Newly elected president of the Dominican Republic (June 11). Abinader and his wife had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, three-and-a-half weeks before the Dominican Republic's presidential election. AFP

Nikol Pashinyan Armenia's prime minister (June 1) Pashinyan said “I didn’t have any symptoms, I decided to take a test as I was planning to visit the frontline,” adding that his whole family was infected. Reuters

Riek Machar - South Sudan Vice President (May 19) Machar and his wife Angelina Teny, who serves as defence minister, tested positive for the coronavirus. Reuters

Mikhail Mishustin - Prime Minister Of Russia (April 30) Mishustin was tasked by Vladimir Putin with leading the response to the country’s coronavirus outbreak, prior to being diagnosed with Covid-19. EPA

Boris Johnson - The UK prime minister (March 27) after testing positive Johnson said in a video posted on twitter that he was experiencing a temperature and a persistent cough, and that he was working from home and self-isolating. 10 Downing Street via AP

Prince Albert II of Monaco (March 19). Prince Albert was the first reigning monarch or head of state to publicly announce a positive Coronavirus diagnosis. Getty Images

Eshaq Jahangiri – Senior Iranian Vice President (March 11) tested positive according to Fars News Agency soon after President Hassan Rouhani took control of the country’s much-criticized response to the virus. Office of the Iranian Vice President via AP)

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (October 26) - began a five-day quarantine on Saturday after senior staff tested positive for the coronavirus. EPA

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, tested positive for Coronavirus on March 12. The prime minister subsequently went into a 14-day isolation at home with his three kids and remained in isolation for almost a month. Reuters

US President Donald Trump has become the latest world leader to contract the coronavirus that has infected more than 33 million people and killed more than a million this year. Here’s a look at other countries whose leader have had the virus.

Britain

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was the first major world leader confirmed to have Covid-19. He was moved to intensive care in April after his symptoms dramatically worsened a day after he was hospitalised for what were called routine tests. He was given oxygen but did not need a ventilator, officials said. He later expressed his gratitude to National Health Service staff for saving his life when his treatment could have “gone either way”.

Brazil

President Jair Bolsonaro announced his illness in July and used it to publicly extol hydroxychloroquine, the unproven malaria drug first touted by Mr Trump, that he had been promoting as a treatment for Covid-19 and was taking himself. For months he had flirted with the virus as he flouted social distancing at lively demonstrations and encouraged crowds during outings from the presidential residence, often without a mask.

Honduras

President Juan Orlando Hernandez announced in June that he had tested positive, along with two other people who worked closely with him. Mr Hernandez said he had started what he called the “MAIZ treatment”, an experimental and unproven combination of microdacyn, azithromycin, ivermectin and zinc. He was briefly hospitalised and released. He has added his voice to growing pleas for equitable access to any Covid-19 vaccine, asking the recent UN gathering of world leaders, “Are people to be left to die?”

Belarus, Armenia and Russia

President Alexander Lukashenko, who dismissed concerns about the virus as “psychosis” and recommended drinking vodka to stay healthy, said in July he had contracted it himself but was asymptomatic. Belarus is one of the few countries that took no comprehensive measures against the virus. Other top officials in former Soviet states who were infected include Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

Guatemala

President Alejandro Giammattei 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. “I don’t have a fever, I have a bit of a cough.” He said he would be working from home.

Bolivia

The virus drove the interim president Jeanine Anez into isolation in July, but she said she was feeling well.

Dominican Republic

Luis Abinader, the newly elected president, contracted and recovered from Covid-19 during his campaign. He spent weeks in isolation before the country’s July election.

Iran

Iran, the epicentre of the Middle East’s initial coronavirus outbreak, has seen several top officials test positive. Among them are senior Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri and Vice President Massoumeh Ebtekar. Cabinet members have tested positive, too.

India

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, 71, recently tested positive but his office said he had no symptoms and was quarantined at home. Home Minister Amit Shah, the No 2 man in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, was hospitalised for Covid-19 last month and has recovered. Junior Railways Minister Suresh Angadi last week was the first federal minister to die from Covid-19.

Israel

Yaakov Litzman tested positive in April, while he was Israel's health minister, and recovered. Mr Litzman is a leader in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, which has seen a high rate of infection as many have defied restrictions on religious gatherings. The minister for Jerusalem affairs, Rafi Peretz, tested positive over the summer as cases surged nationwide and recovered.

South Africa

The country's mineral resources and energy minister, Gwede Mantashe, and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi were infected as cases surged in June and July.

South Sudan

Vice President Riek Machar was among several Cabinet ministers infected.