COVID-19:One death recorded in Rwanda prisons

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NYANZA, RWANDA - APRIL 03: Prisoners walk out of the Golf Wing, where men convicted of genocide are housed, at the Nyanza Prison April 3, 2014 in Nyanza, Rwanda. Of the 6567 prisoners kept at the correctional facility, 5827 of them were convicted of participating in or leading the 1994 Rwandan genocide, where Hutu extremists killed more than 800,000 while attempting to wipe out the Tutsi people. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NYANZA, RWANDA – APRIL 03: Prisoners walk out of the Golf Wing, where men convicted of genocide are housed, at the Nyanza Prison April 3, 2014 in Nyanza, Rwanda. Of the 6567 prisoners kept at the correctional facility, 5827 of them were convicted of participating in or leading the 1994 Rwandan genocide, where Hutu extremists killed more than 800,000 while attempting to wipe out the Tutsi people. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A 72-year-old man succumbed to Covid-19 in Rwamagana District, Eastern Province, on Friday, November 13, raising the tally of Rwanda’s Covid-19 deaths to 42.

The same district has been consistently reporting COVID-19 fatalities and infections mostly linked to Nsinda Prison located in the area.

According to the Ministry of Health, 2,759 sample tests were taken in the last 24 hours, and among them 43 tested positive for the virus. Of the positive Covid-19 cases, 36 were detected in Muhanga Prison.

Rwanda currently has a total of 5,362 Covid-19 confirmed cases of which 4,993 have already recovered and discharged.

The country has so far carried out 582,412 Covid-19 tests.

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