World leaders diagnosed with COVID-19

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Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has joined a club that no one really wants to be part of. He’s one of a group of world leaders who’ve now been infected with the coronavirus. As The World’s Jorge Valencia reports, some individual leaders have become one-person metaphors in their nations’ battles against COVID-19.

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