The claws of COVID-19 has clamped a soul in Madagascar as a 57-year-old man, who had developed complications after testing positive for COVID-19, has died in Toamasina, a city in Madagascar.
This was confirmed from a spokesperson for the coronavirus operational command centre, Sunday, with claims that he died on Saturday.
However, two other people who are also down with severe complications are “still in intensive care”.
Madagascar also confirmed twenty-one new cases on Sunday, bringing the total to 304 COVID-19 cases, since confirming its first case on the 19th of March, the Malagasy press agency noted.
A breakdown of the 21 new cases showed that out of the 103 tests carried out on Saturday between 8pm and 6am, 15 people tested positive out of the 61 samples collected in Tana, while six persons tested positive out of the 42 samples collected in Taomasina.
Hanta Vololontianahas who is the spokesperson for the coronavirus operational command centre has however asked for “strict observation of containment measures, especially for the three regions Analamanga, Atsinanana and Haute Matsiatra”.
The state of emergency declared on the health sector has been extended until May 31, and President Andry Rajoelina is expected to address the nation at 8pm later today.
Madagascar has been in the news in the past few weeks over its herbal remedy, which it claims can be used in the treatment of COVID-19.
Speaking on the effectiveness of the tonic in a recent interview with France 24, Rajoelina said: “COVID-Organics is a preventive and curative remedy against COVID-19. It works really well and it is as a result of the research carried out by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research which has the status of an original research centre.”
Nigeria, among other African countries, has received a consignment of COVID-Organics, the herbal remedy from Madagascar, which President Muhammadu Buhari said would undergo a verification process before it will be put to use.
(THECABLE)
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