Global Affairs: Trump, Covid and the myth of the invulnerable leader

Donald Trump is not the only US president to face the pressure of having to mask health concerns

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US President Donald Trump is not the only world leader to contract the coronavirus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson got infected at the height of the pandemic in April, and for a while his life hung in the balance. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was also hit by the virus, as were a clutch of other leaders in Latin America and Europe, from Monaco's Prince Albert II on the western tip of the continent, to the Prime Minister of Armenia on the eastern side of Europe.

And then, there is the story of the President of the African state of Burundi, a healthy 55-year-old who died suddenly in June of a suspected coronavirus infection.

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