US President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a NATO roundtable meeting in England in December. AP Photo/Frank Augstein
Rosie Perper, Business Insider: Boris Johnson tested positive for COVID-19 and is being treated in the ICU. Experts explain the possible fallout of other world leaders catching the coronavirus.
* The coronavirus, which causes a disease called COVID-19, has killed more than 74,000 and infected over 1.3 million. It has spread to at least 184 countries.
* On March 27, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first world leader of a major power to announce that he had tested positive for COVID-19. He is currently undergoing treatment in the ICU.
* Other world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Canada's Justin Trudeau, have come into contact with people who tested positive for the illness.
* Several experts weighed in on the possible social, political, and economic effects of a major world leader contracting COVID-19.
As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, experts have weighed in on the possible social, political, and economic fallout if a head of state were to contract COVID-19.
On March 27, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first world leader of a major power to announce that he had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. On April 5, he entered the hospital for treatment, and as of April 6, he had been moved into an intensive-care unit after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.
"Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital," his spokesperson said on April 6.
Read more ....
WNU Editor: World leaders have gotten sick in the past, and many have died while in office. In democracies there is a line of succession, but in autocratic countries, that may not be the case. If someone like President Putin or Chinese President Xi get incapacitated and/or past away, the impact on policies and foreign affairs will be very profound. Ditto if President Trump or Prime Minister Boris Johnson past away. But if other leaders past away .... like Canadian PM Trudeau, I do not see any significant changes. Life will go on.
