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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.
Leaders infected
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.
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HORRIBLE EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK Cemetery workers bury COVID-19 victims outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, last summer. Brazil recorded the world s second-highest number of coronavirus deaths this year, behind the U.S.
As if the region s coronavirus catastrophe wasn t enough, 2020 heaped human rights crises and historic hurricanes on Latin America and the Caribbean too.
As it was for the rest of the world, COVID-19 was overwhelmingly the top story of 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean. And the most tragic. Brazil alone has recorded the world s second-highest number of COVID deaths, behind the United States.
But from human rights struggles to hurricane devastation, 2020 heaped enough on
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SANTOS Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday a COVID-19 vaccine would be available in the country within five days of being approved by federal health regulator Anvisa.
The president told journalists the Health Ministry would only buy a vaccine with a strong recommendation from Anvisa and it would be distributed equally among Brazil’s states.
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Bolsonaro, who was infected with COVID-19 in July, has sought to downplay the severity of the virus and said he will not agree to be vaccinated. (Reporting by Leonardo Benassatto Editing by Chris Reese)