President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s long serving CIO agent Albert Vunganai who died in a car accident while escorting Mnangagwa’s wife on Friday was buried on Sunday at Glen Forest Memorial Park cemetery in Harare with serious concerns over disregard of standing Coronavirus precautions.

Well over the stipulated maximum number of mourners attended the burial and funeral wake at his family home exposing them to the effects of the ravaging virus which has killed over 200 000 people in the world and four of them in Zimbabwe.

Declaring a national lockdown to curb the spread of the virus at the end of last month, President Mnangagwa announced regulations that included an order that all funerals must be limited to no more than fifty people with social distancing and use of proper protective equipment being emphasised.

At Vunganai’s funeral wake and burial all these precautions appeared to have been ignored and no personal protective equipment like masks and gloves were supplied to mourners.

Harare currently has the highest numbers for both infections and deaths in the currently.

At the burial, Mnangagwa described the late Vunganai, who was a close aide to the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, as a professional cadre who was dedicated to his work.

The President said this in his condolence message read before Vunganai’s burial by the Deputy Director General in the President’s Department, Walter Tapfumaneyi.

Vunganai (36) died on Friday from injuries sustained in an accident in the Mavhuradonha mountain range in Muzarabani when the First Lady and her team were enroute to distribute foodstuffs to the elderly and vulnerable families.

Three other security officers were injured in the accident and are recovering in hospital.

Vunganai was a principal security aide in the President’s Department at the time of his death.

He is survived by his wife Nancy and two children.