Some national leaders, [1] including heads of state and heads of government have tested positive for COVID-19 while in office.
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Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
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Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil
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Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
[4] -
Emmanuel Macron, President of France
[1] -
Jean Castex, Prime Minister of France
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Alejandro Giammattei, President of Guatemala
[2] -
Juan Orlando Hernández, President of Honduras
[5] -
Micheál Martin, Taoiseach of Ireland
[6] -
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico -
Prince Albert II of Monaco, Prince of Monaco
[2] -
James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
[7] -
Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan -
Andrzej Duda, President of Poland
[8] -
António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal
[9] -
Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister (head of government) of Russia.
[1] -
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey
[10] -
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
[11] -
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
[12] -
Elizabeth II,
[13] Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, Grenada, The Bahamas, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, St. Lucia, Beliza, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Commonwelath
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Donald Trump, President of the United States (October 2020)
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Naftali Bennett, Prime Minister of Israel
[15] -
Mohammed VI, King of Morocco
[16] -
Bongbong Marcos, President of the Philippines
[17] -
Joe Biden, President of the United States (July 2022)
[18]
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Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
[19]
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