Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas hospitalized in Congo-Brazzaville, just before the presidential election of which he is a candidate. According to his campaign manager, he was diagnosed positive for Covid 19 on Friday, March 19th. He is one of the biggest opponents of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso in this election. His relatives are working this Saturday night with his possible evacuation to France.
In Brazzaville, Florence Morice
Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas seemed weakened during his campaign meetings this week. His entourage then spoke of an acute malaria crisis.
On Friday, he was even absent from his closing meeting, forced to be admitted to a private clinic in Brazzaville. And then it’s there that he was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Friday after Cyr Mayanda, his campaign director.
In a video circulating tonight on social networks and whose authenticity the same source confirms to RFI, the opponent is shown on his hospital bed. He is assisted by a respirator, which he removes from his mouth to say a few words: “I am in trouble, I am fighting to the death …”, he said before urging the Congolese to go to the polls this Sunday.
From concrete sources, the question is that Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas will be evacuated this Saturday night to France to be treated there. No confirmation or official response from the Congolese authorities at present.
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