Dailymail.co.uk reports that Pastor Frankline Ndifor, 39, who laid his hands on dozens of confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients is dead.
Dr Gaelle Nnanga, who was called to treat Ndifor after he started having severe respiratory difficulties a week after falling ill with the virus, said the pastor died ten minutes after treatment.
Ndifor, a candidate in Cameroon’s presidential election in 2018, claimed to cure COVID-19.
In previous weeks, sufferers had flocked to the Kingship International Ministries Church, founded by Ndifor, where he laid his hands on them and prayed for their healing.
His supporters called him a ‘prophet’ and blocked the entrance to his home in the capital city of Douala for eight hours as medical workers tried to retrieve Ndifor’s body on Saturday morning.