This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.

Zororo Makamba, a 30-year-old radio and television commentator and the scion of one of Zimbabwe’s wealthiest families, died on March 23, two days after testing positive for the virus. His was the first recorded death from the virus in that southern African nation.

His death was confirmed by Obadiah Moyo, Zimbabwe’s health and child care minister, and by Alexa Halvorssen, a friend.

Nurses in Zimbabwean state hospitals walked off their jobs earlier in March because they lacked protective equipment, and the United Nations warned that the main infectious-diseases hospital in Harare, the capital, lacked intensive care beds.