ESwatini’s prime minister tests positive for COVID-19

ESwatini Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating at home, he said in a government statement on Sunday.

Dlamini is asymptomatic and feeling well, he added.

The landlocked southern African nation formerly known as Swaziland was among the last in the world to record a COVID-19 death in late April.

It has now documented 6,095 positive cases and 119 deaths from coronavirus.

Most of eSwatini’s 1.5 million people eke out a living as farmers or migrant labourers in neighbouring South Africa.

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