Fritz Takang, an inmate of Yaounde Central Prison, takes a selfie inside the prison, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Yaounde, Cameroon May 22, 2020. Picture taken May 22, 2020. Fritz Takang/Handout via REUTERS
DAKAR/YAOUNDE (Reuters) - On the morning of April 24, Fritz Takang became so breathless he could barely walk across the cramped cell he shared with 60 inmates at the main prison in Cameroon's capital, Yaounde.
That night, he said, he was evacuated with five others to an apartment complex that was being used to quarantine suspected COVID-19 cases.
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