Donald and Melania Trump are the newest to join the list of world leaders who have contracted a coronavirus.
The public nature of their lives, and the desire to make themselves known and known to others, makes it difficult to isolate themselves from human contact.
Sky News analyzes some of the other hard people who died from the pandemic.
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Boris Johnson, United Kingdom
Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved himself after positive for coronavirus in March.
While suffering on Downing Street, he was eventually taken to St Thomas Hospital in London and transferred to intensive care, where he spent three nights before ing. He was discharged on April 12.
The 55-year-old said he was indebted to the doctors and nurses who cared for him, saying, “I owe you my life. I can’t thank you enough. “
Mr. Johnson had revealed his positive outcome on the same day as Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
Mr. Hancock’s recovery was easier, however, he claimed that he had lost part of a stone while ill.
Describing the effects of COVID-19, he told Sky News, “It’s hard, especially when downhill.
“It’s very worried because we’ve all noticed how serious this can be. “
Jeanine Anez, Bolivia
Bolivia’s president, Jeanine Anez, announced in July that the virus had been tested.
Ms. Anez, 52, said in a tweet that she was “fine” and that she kept painting in isolation.
“Together we’re going out,” he says.
He had recovered and returned to work, he said, by the end of the month.
At least seven ministers, the Minister of Health, tested positive.
Like Trump, he took the test after many of his team members got sick.
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil
Like his U. S. counterpart, the Brazilian president has long minimized the severity of the coronavirus, despite nearly five million cases in his country.
At one point, he brazened it as “a little flu. “
The 65-year-old right-wing populist proved to have contracted the virus on July 7.
When he pleaded recovered 18 days later, he did so on Facebook, posing with hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug touted through Trump, whose effectiveness has not yet been proven, and went temporarily to meet other people without wearing a mask.
Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus
In July, the president of Belarus informed the world that he had a coronavirus but had recovered without any symptoms.
The 66-year-old leader, who called the disease a massive “psychosis” and told his compatriots that a classic sauna or vodka drink would keep them safe, said he had no symptoms.
Mr Lukashenko said: “97% of our other people are going through this disease without symptoms and thank God, I have controlled to enter this organization of other asymptomatic people. “
He has been widely criticized for not introducing precautionary measures taken across countries.
Alejandro Giammattei, Guatemala
Mr. Giammattei, 64, revealed last month that he had tested positive and suffered from high fever and pain and discomfort.
His announcement came on the same day that the country reopened its borders and two airports, all closed since March 16.
Juan Orlando Hernández, Honduras
Hernandez, 51, left the hospital in early July, days after being admitted by a coronavirus.
Speaking outside the hospital, Mr. Hernandez, moved, said: “Many other people think it’s a game and it’s only when they see a family member in poor health or when they themselves are in poor health that they perceive the severity of this problem.
“I have an idea what would happen if I could no longer be with my circle of relatives. “
His wife, Ana García de Hernández, recovering from the virus at home.
He asked the other Hondurans to fight the virus by taking on their individual responsibility, telling them that “COVID came here to replace our lives. “
Prince Charles
The heir to the British throne said he “got away with it a little bit” when he contracted a coronavirus at the start of the outbreak in the UK in March.
The 71-year-old Prince of Wales was ingested in Birkhall, Aberdeenshire, after positive for the virus and experiencing mild symptoms.
He said to Sky News, “I’m lucky in my caseArray . . . but I’ve had it, so I can perceive what others have been through. “
Michel Barnier
The EU’s leading Brexit negotiator, 69, contracted the virus at the start of the pandemic on March 19.
He said: “For all those who are already affected, and for all those who are isolated lately, we will go through this together. “
“To win this battle, we will have to think and act collectively. We can get out of this crisis more strongly than before,” he added.
He returned to his just under a month later.