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Nobel laureate resigns from DR Congo's anti-Covid-19 team

Dr Denis Mukwege, founder of Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Washington, DC February 25, 2014. He has quit a special commission for fighting Covid-19 in South Kivu, citing lack of facilitation from the government. PHOTO | GETTY IMAGES | AFP

By  PATRICK ILUNGA

Contributor

Kinshasa,

A famed Congolese medic who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 has resigned from the country’s team formed to fight Covid-19.

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