Former Minister dies of coronavirus (Photo)

A former minister has died of coronavirus (COVID-19).

Onyxnews Nigeria reports that 67-year-old former Libya’s interim Prime Minister, Mahmoud Jibril has died from the coronavirus (COVID-19).

This reliable online news platform understands that Jibril tested positive for the virus in Egypt in late March and died at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt.

The former minister was in power as head of the National Transitional Council during months of civil war in 2011 which led to the forceful out of former long-time ruler Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Libya’s internationally well known government in Tripoli offered its condolences in a statement that described Jibril as a “national figure”.

Mahmoud Jibril

Reputed to be an astute technocrat by those who knew him and worked with him, Jibril was Libya’s transitional prime minister for just seven months, and later formed his own political bloc known as the National Forces’ Alliance.

As a politician, late Jebril was seen by his supporters as a potential force for transforming the country but he was sidelined from political office by election laws that banned officials who had served in the transitional period from taking part in the country’s first parliamentary elections in 2012.

Jibril ‘s party won a majority of seats in parliament.

In another development, even animals are not exempted from contracting the deadly pandemic. A Malayan tiger has tested positive for the raging coronavirus in the US.

The US Department of Agriculture revealed that a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City tested positive for COVID-19. With reports also stated that six other big cats are having symptoms persistent with the disease.

Onyxnews Nigeria gathered that the tiger named Nadia, likely contracted the coronavirus from an infected zookeeper.