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Sunday, May 17, 2020
Madagascar announces 1st virus death,
Madagascar on Sunday announces the first death of a patient suffering from the novel coronavirus, nearly two months after it was first detected in the country.
The 57-year-old hospital worker died on Saturday and had underlying diabetes and high blood pressure before he was infected, an official from the anti-coronavirus task team said.
“It is with great sadness that we have to share with all our compatriots, that there is an individual, aged 57, who died from COVID-19,” professor Hanta Vololontiana says on public television.
He was a car park attendant at a hospital in the eastern city of Toamasina.
— AFP