Rwanda upgrades testing capacity, finds UK, S. Africa virus variants

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Rwanda has recorded 12 cases of the UK and South Africa coronavirus variants. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

Rwanda has upgraded its national laboratory testing capacity to detect new coronavirus variants with 12 cases of the UK and South Africa variants now confirmed in the country.

The patients were international travellers who were immediately quarantined and treated. No local transmission of the new variants has been recorded so far, according to Rwanda’s Ministry of Health.