On 16 April, Dominique Voynet, Director of Mayotte Regional Health Agency, announced that a person who died on 8 April in Mayotte of COVID-19 was Said Toihir, the Grand Mufti of the Comoros.[9] The announcement caused a diplomatic rift between Comoros and France. Mohamed El-Amine Souef, Foreign Minister of Comoros said "If a case is confirmed in the Comoros, it is not Dominique Voynet to announce it, we have been independent since 6 July 1975." [10]