King Eswatini: I recovered from Corona thanks to a medicine sent by Taiwan
Mswati III: My test is currently negative. Reuters
King Eswatini Mswati III said he had recovered from "Covid-19" after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen sent him an anti-viral drug.
Eswatini is a small country in the south of the African continent, and it applies the absolute monarchy, and it was known before as Swaziland.
The kingdom is Taiwan's only remaining diplomatic ally, and Taipei has provided it with large amounts of economic and other aid.
The king added, in a speech he gave on Friday, that his country is waiting for vaccines to arrive, but there is an anti-virus medicine that can treat "Covid-19" even if he did not mention it by name.
He added that the tests confirmed his infection with the Corona virus "for a few days" in the first week of last January, but now it is negative.
"I am grateful to the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan for sending this medicine for my treatment," he continued in the speech posted on the official account of the government of Eswatini on "Twitter".
The king was probably referring to the remdesivir drug produced by Gilead Sciences and approved by Europe last July to treat Covid-19 in adults and minors with pneumonia that requires oxygen supply.
Eswatini recorded nearly 17 thousand cases of the virus and 644 deaths, and its Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini died in a South African hospital last December after contracting "Covid-19".
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