The Congolese authorities announced that they have detected one-hundred and one detainees contaminated by the Covid-19 in the Ndolo military prison located in Kinshasa, the capital.
On Monday, 4 May 2020, the Congolese government, gathered the Council of Ministers and expressed its fear over the “risk of a lightning spread” of the disease in this prison, which counts between one-thousand nine-hundred and two-thousand prisoners.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has so far registered six-hundred and eighty-two confirmed cases of Covid-19, including thirty-four deaths and eighty recoveries.
To contain the spread of the pandemic, four fourteen days the government confined the business and administrative center of Kinshasa, called Gombe, before starting a gradual easing of the lockdown on 21 April 2020.
– APA
