Madagascar on Sunday confirmed the first coronavirus death in the country, as one of the 322 patients succumbed to the epidemic.
A 57-year-old hospital worker died from the COVID-19 in Madagascar, nearly two months after the virus was first detected in the Indian Ocean island nation.
The man who was a car park attendant at a hospital in the eastern city of Toamasina died on Saturday, professor Hanta Vololontiana, an official from the anti-coronavirus task team said.
In an address to the nation on public television, Rajoelina said the patient was too sick to be administered with the herbal remedy.
At least 18 new cases of the coronavirus were reported across the country, bringing the total tally to 332, according to Worldinfo data Monday.
