Former President Jerry John Rawlings was diagnosed with COVID-19 before his death on Thursday, November 12, Joy News’ Head of Health Desk Fred Smith has confirmed.
According to Fred Smith who was reporting from the premises of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital where the former President died earlier today, doctors are not able to confirm if the virus was what eventually killed him even though he had contracted the deadly virus.
GhanaWeb cannot independently confirm the veracity of the claims but several other media houses have affirmed that JJ Rawlings indeed succumbed to the deadly virus.
Rawlings died at age 73.
The former president according to state-owned Daily Graphic died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where he was on admission for a week.
