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Puntland Records First COVID-19 Death

Dr. Jama Farah, the Minister of Health in Puntland State, has announced the first COVID-19 death in the region.

The health minister has been briefing the media and the public on the novel Coronavirus since the state reported its first confirmed case.

On Friday, he announced that the state had recorded the first death arising out of Coronavirus complications.

According to Dr. Farah, health officials had collected the deceased’s samples, which they then sent to a laboratory for testing.

Results came back positive.

Consequently, the deceased would be interred according to the guidelines issued by the health ministry, the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the World Health Organization (WHO).