Health authorities in Ituri have decided to make masks mandatory in all offices and other public places, after the province recorded its 6th positive case of the Coronavirus pandemic.

According to our confidant source,Health authorities in Ituri have decided to make masks mandatory in all offices and other public places, after the province recorded its 6th positive case of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The provincial health minister, who announced it, said the new patient is a health worker who developed signs before his samples tested positive.
Doctor Patrick Karamura added that the patient is already placed in isolation and around fifty people who have come into contact with him are already listed and followed up by a medical team.
With this new case in Bunia, the number of patients goes from 5 to 6 for Ituri, the first two are already declared cured, while two others are in Mahagi territory, more than 180km north of the province, at the Ugandan border.