David Beasley, head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), has announced that he had been tested positive for the novel coronavirus. “I want you to be among the first to know that in the past few hours I have received confirmation, after testing, that I have the Covid-19 virus,’’ he said in a
The foreign policy advisor to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been quarantined with a suspected case of infection with the new coronavirus. Ali Akbar Velayati has shown symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, and has been quarantined by his doctors as a precaution, local media reports said on Friday. […]
Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has tested positive for the new coronavirus and has been admitted to hospital, he said on Friday. After waking up in the morning with a temperature and sore throat, he was tested for Covid-19 and was told in the afternoon the test came back positive, Dutton said in a statement. […]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, tested positive for Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, the prime minister’s spokesman said late on Thursday. “Following medical recommendations, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau was tested for COVID-19 today. The test came back positive,” a statement shared by
