Mozambique President, Firstlady contract COVID-19

The President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, and his wife, Isaura Nyusi, have tested positive for COVID-19, Top Naija reports.

President Nyusi announced this in a statement on his Facebook page on Monday night On 3 January 2022, where he revealed that he and his wife were asymptomatic.

Married to Isaura Nyusi and has four children, Jacinto, Florindo, Claudia and Angelino, Nyusi is a member of the Makonde ethnic community. Nyusi is also the current leader of FRELIMO, the party that has governed Mozambique since its independence from Portugal in 1975.

The announcement read, “My wife and I have been tested positive for COVID-19 in rapid tests we decided to do after several activities we have carried out over the last few days.

“Even though we were asymptomatic, and waiting for definitive PCR test results, we immediately entered isolation in accordance with the health guidelines in force in the country.

“In the current context of the circulation of the Omicron variant of SARS-COV-2, highly contagious, we renew the call for strict observance of measures to prevent and combat the COVID-19 pandemic and urge all compatriots greater than 18 years of adhering to ongoing vaccination nationwide.”