Former indomitable lion Patrick Mboma has announced the death of his uncle Achille Essome Moukouri, attributing it to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mboma made the announcement on his Twitter account early this Monday morning, an information that is yet to be confirmed or refuted by the Government.

In the meantime, officials of the Ministry of public health reportdly said that it is difficult to establish if the patient died of COVID-19 given that he had not been tested positive.