Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei tested positive for coronavirus, the government showed Friday, joining at least seven other world leaders who contracted the virus while suffering the slowdown in its spread.
Giammattei tested positive after coughing and aches, but plans to keep running while ingessed at home, local media reported on Friday.
Guatemala’s culture minister hit the virus, Reuters reported.
Three other Latin American heads of state have a coronavirus in recent months, adding Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who tested positive in July after months of downplaying the virus and calling it “a little cold. “
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández tested positive in June, then spent more than two weeks in a hospital with symptoms of pneumonia, and Bolivia’s interim president, Jeanine Aez, contracted the virus in July.
Boris Johnson, prime minister of the United Kingdom, entered a hospital intensive care unit while suffering a serious case of Covid-19 in the spring.
The prime ministers of Armenia and Guinea-Bissau tested positive, and the besathed Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, said he had taken the virus.
Prince Albert II of Monaco the virus in March.
Giammattei has enacted strict restrictions to involve the spread of Covid-19 in Guatemala during the summer, adding a mandatory curfew and bans. The president began lifting some of the restrictions on Friday, following occasional protests opposed to his government’s strict response. The country has noticed more than 3,000 deaths since April, however, its number of instances is no longer emerging as in other Latin American countries such as Brazil and Argentina.
This is the total number of new coronavirus infections reported Thursday in North and South America, both continents have been guilty of more than part of the total number of international cases since the onset of the pandemic, according to the World Health Organization.
More than a dozen members of Congress in the United States have contracted coronavirus since March, and National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien hit the virus during the summer. President Trump has refused to wear a mask and has departed from his advisers’ recommendations on rallies and mass gatherings, but has tested negative on several occasions.
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