
<p>President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for Covid-19, Trump announced in a tweet, joining a growing list of world leaders and officials to&nbsp; have contracted the disease while fighting to contain its spread.</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tonight, <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2020</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As too many Americans have done this year, <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@potus</a> &amp; I are quarantining at home after testing positive for COVID-19. We are feeling good &amp; I have postponed all upcoming engagements. Please be sure you are staying safe &amp; we will all get through this together.</p>&mdash; Melania Trump 45 Archived (@FLOTUS45) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS45/status/1311900591174680581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2020</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<p>Trump announced the positive test results on Twitter mere hours after close advisor Hope Hicks tested positive, while First Lady Melania Trump also tested positive for coronavirus; according to a statement&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/farhip/status/1311897640892760065?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">from</a>&nbsp;White House Physician Sean Conley, both are “well at this time, and they plan to remain home within the White House during their convalescence.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>Trump joins a growing list of world leaders and officials to have tested positive for coronavirus.&nbsp;</p>



<ul><li>Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/07/07/brazilian-president-jair-bolsonaro-tests-positive-for-covid-19/#152de6f1508c">tested positive</a> in July after months of downplaying the risks of the virus and dismissing it as “a little flu”; at the time of writing, Brazil’s coronavirus death toll of 144,000 is the second-highest in the world after the U.S. </li></ul>



<ul><li>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was one of the first world leaders to announce he had <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/03/27/british-prime-minister-boris-johnson-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/#5cb7c9f743ed">caught</a> the virus in March and was eventually admitted to a hospital ICU after suffering persistent symptoms.</li></ul>



<ul><li>Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2020/09/18/guatemalan-president-latest-world-leader-to-contract-coronavirus-here-are-the-other-7/#76a8e7052394"> tested positive</a> for coronavirus in September after experiencing body aches and a dry cough; Reuters <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-guatemala/guatemalan-president-and-minister-have-coronavirus-cabinet-to-test-idUSKBN2692K0?il=0" target="_blank">reports</a> that Giammattei asked the entire cabinet to be tested, with the government later confirming that the minister for culture tested positive.</li></ul>



<ul><li>Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Añez <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/10/americas/bolivia-president-anez-coronavirus-intl/index.html" target="_blank">caught</a> the virus in July.</li></ul>



<ul><li>After being diagnosed in June, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/02/americas/honduras-president-covid-19-discharge-intl/index.html" target="_blank">spent</a> over two weeks in a hospital after developing pneumonia symptoms.  </li></ul>



<ul><li>Having dismissed coronavirus as a mass “psychosis”, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/europe/alexander-lukashenko-coronavirus-infection-intl/index.html" target="_blank">claims</a> he briefly caught the virus. </li></ul>



<ul><li>The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, and his family<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/armenian-prime-minister-recovers-covid-19" target="_blank"> tested positive </a>and recovered from the virus in June.</li></ul>



<ul><li>In Guinea-Bissau, Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam and three ministers <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronarivus-bissau/guinea-bissau-pm-and-three-ministers-test-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKBN22B1YG?feedType=RSS&amp;" target="_blank">tested</a> positive for Covid-19 in April.</li></ul>



<ul><li>In March, Prince Albert II of Monaco became the first reigning monarch or head of state to <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/19/818698736/prince-albert-ii-of-monaco-tests-positive-for-coronavirus" target="_blank">announce</a> a positive test result for the disease. </li></ul>



<ul><li>In April, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin temporarily <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-mishustin/russian-prime-minister-mikhail-mishustin-tells-putin-he-has-coronavirus-idUSKBN22C357" target="_blank">stepped down</a> to recover from coronavirus.</li></ul>



<p><em>-By Robert Hart, Forbes Staff</em></p>


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