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The Minister of Somaliland, Suleiman Ali, has positive for coronavirus (COVID-19).
“I have tested positive for the coronavirus after I and other ministries went to a testing lab in the city Las Anod,” he said in a news conference.
Somaliland is a breakaway region of African Somalia.
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Ali’s test result comes amid concerns of a second wave of coronavirus infections.
The minister who was on a peace and mediation tour in Sool area said he was feeling okay, adding that he would go into isolation and continue discharging his duties.
He warned that coronavirus was still a risk and that people should follow guidelines put in place to prevent its spread.
He said over the past few weeks, the region is reporting a rising number of pandemic infections, fearing the outbreak of the second wave in Somaliland.
Somaliland is in dispute with the neighbouring semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland over the Sanaag and Sool areas, some of whose inhabitants owe their allegiance to Puntland.
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In April, Khalif Mumin, justice minister of Hirshabelle province died of coronavirus in a hospital in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia.
A self-declared state, Somaliland lies in northwestern Somalia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden.
According to the US-based Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center Somalia has so far reported 3,389 infections with 98 deaths. As many as 2,791 have also recovered.
