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| - A growing number of world leaders and politicians -- most recently French President Emmanuel Macron -- have been infected by Covid-19, not least Donald Trump. Here is a roundup. Macron on Thursday became the latest world leader to test positive for Covid-19. He will self isolate for the next week, and "will continue to work and carry out his activities remotely," his office said in a statement. Before him US President Trump announced on October 2 he was positive, as was his wife Melania. After a stay in a military hospital near Washington, 10 days later he tested negative and went back on the campaign trial, saying he was "immune" to the coronavirus. On July 7, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he had tested positive for the virus, whose importance he has consistently played down as a "little flu". Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 55, was discharged from hospital on April 12, where he spent a week, including three days in intensive care, after falling ill from the coronavirus. After two weeks' convalescence he went back to work. In early September the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi tested positive after returning from a holiday at his luxury villa in Sardinia. He was released from hospital on September 14. Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin was diagnosed with coronavirus in late April, returning to his duties three weeks later after recovering. Britain's Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, and Prince Albert II of Monaco, both tested positive in March and showed mild symptoms, and have long since come out of quarantine. Few politicians have, however, died of the coronavirus. On December 13, Ambrose Dlamini, 52, the prime minister of Eswatini, the former Swaziland, died after contracting coronavirus, and being hospitalised in South Africa. He was the first sitting leader to do so. Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing died on December 2 of Covid 19 aged 94. bur-jmy/pma
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