These heads of government tested positive for Covid-19 before Donald Trump

“The First Lady and I have tested positive for Covid-19.

(...) We're going to get out of this together! "

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It is with this succinct tweet that the President of the United States, in the midst of the presidential campaign, announced that he was positive for the new coronavirus this Friday, after learning that his close advisor, Hope Hicks, was herself suffering from this disease.

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The news is all the more shattering as the US president is accused, on the basis of a series of interviews he gave journalist Bob Woodward, of having repeatedly sought to minimize the pandemic.

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, he had notably declared in mid-September to try to explain his statements to the famous journalist.

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- Donald Trump announces that he has tested positive for coronavirus

Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil

Before him, the irony of fate had struck other heads of state who had also distinguished themselves by minimizing the seriousness of Covid-19.

This was the case, for example, of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who had long called the disease

After refusing to wear a protective mask and regularly ignoring safety distances with his supporters, Jair Bolsonaro, 65, had thus remained positive for SARS-CoV-2 for three weeks in July 2020, before recovering and be tested negative again.

A cure that he attributed to his treatment with hydroxychloroquine, a controversial drug also defended by Donald Trump.

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Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister

Tested positive for Covid-19 on March 26, Prime Minister Boris Johnson even spent three nights in intensive care in April because of persistent symptoms.

Released from hospital on April 12, he thanked the caregivers to whom

, and resumed full-time duties on April 27.

Like Trump or Bolsonaro, Boris Johnson had been slow to recognize the dangerousness of the virus, betting at the start of the crisis on a strategy of collective immunity.

Since his hospitalization, the 56-year-old Conservative leader has constantly raised questions about the impact of the disease on his health in the United Kingdom, where the new coronavirus has killed more than 42,000 people - the worst toll in Europe - and where the number of contaminations has started to rise again in recent weeks.

On September 29, Boris Johnson announced that he felt

after following a diet to lose weight.

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Prince Charles, Crown Prince of the United Kingdom

Also across the Channel, Prince Charles, 71 years old and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, had also tested positive for Covid-19 on March 25, but suffered only mild symptoms.

He recovered after isolating himself for seven days.

The heads of state of Bolivia, Honduras and the Dominican Republic

In July, in addition to Brazilian President Bolsonaro, several prominent political figures announced that they were infected with the virus in Latin America.

On July 9, the interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Añez announced to be positive for Covid-19, just like the number 2 of the Venezuelan government Diosdado Cabello.

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was admitted to a military hospital in Tegucigalpa on June 17.

Elected president in the July 5 election in the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, 53, said on June 11 on Twitter that he was positive for the coronavirus.

Four French ministers

In France, several leading ministers have been affected by the disease.

The most recent, the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery Bruno Le Maire tested positive on September 19.

Returning from a week spent in isolation, the minister called for the “

” of the French in the face of a disease “

”.

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Before him, three other French ministers were not spared by the disease.

The former Minister of Culture Franck Riester had thus been diagnosed positive on March 9.

His cabinet then stressed that he was staying "

" and resting at home.

Emmanuelle Wargon, then Secretary of State to the Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition also contracted the virus on March 22, just like the Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition, Brune Poirson, on March 14.

Michel Barnier, European Union negotiator for Brexit

On March 19, it was the European Union's chief negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier, 69, who announced that he had "tested positive" for the coronavirus.

Michel Barnier was finally able to resume his activities in Brussels in mid-April.

His British counterpart David Forst, negotiator for the United Kingdom of Brexit, had isolated himself the next day, in turn showing symptoms.

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Nikol Pachinian, Prime Minister of Armenia

On June 1, it was Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinian who declared to have been infected with the new coronavirus with

.

On June 8, after working from home without noticeable symptoms, he announced that he was cured, he and his whole family this time tested negative.

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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Michoustine

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Michoustine announced on April 30 that he had contracted Covid-19.

After three weeks of convalescence, cured, he had returned to work on May 19, while his country experienced improvement on the front of the epidemic.

Prince Albert of Monaco

The first head of state to reveal to be infected since the start of the pandemic is Prince Albert of Monaco, tested positive for Covid-19 on March 19, and since recovered.