Three days after the country recorded its first coronavirus fatality a second person succumbed to the Covid-19 pandemic in Rwanda.
In a nightly Covid-19 update on Tuesday, June 2, the Ministry of Health said that the new victim was a 24-year-old policewoman who worked abroad and had been repatriated in critical condition.
“She fell ill with Covid-19 and was repatriated home in critical condition for intensive care,” it said in a brief statement released late Tuesday.
Authorities have not offered details of the peacekeeping mission she was serving.
The first case was a 65-year-old truck from a neighboring country where he was residing, which the ministry said had returned to Rwanda in critical condition.
Meanwhile the health ministry announced seven new positive cases of Covid-19 and seven recoveries on Tuesday.
The new cases, taken from Tuesday’s 957 sample tests, took the national tally to 384 – 269 of which have since recovered.
Rwanda has done a total of 70,108 Covid-19 tests since its first case was reported back in March.
