The Democratic Republic of the Congo extends the state of emergency again. Lubumbashi closed the city from Thursday to Saturday.

Published: Jul 8, 2020 21:01
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SMM: on the evening of July 7, the province of Haute-Katanga announced that it would abstain from yan on the border between Lubumbashi, Likassi and Kasson, the province's main cities, from Thursday to Saturday. The epidemic in Haute-Katanga province showed a trend of spread, especially recently, seven Chinese employees in a Chinese enterprise camp in Lubumbashi were infected with Xinguan pneumonia, all of which have been quarantined and treated.

Late on Monday, July 6, 2020, President Tshisekedi signed and promulgated a law passed by Congress approving the extension of the state of emergency. The last fifth extension expired at midnight on July 6. This is the sixth extension, starting on July 7, 2020 and ending on July 21, 2020.

It is reported that on the afternoon of July 7, local time, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to respond to the new crown epidemic multi-sectoral coordination committee released a message on its website that on July 6, 119 new confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

There were 79 cases in Kinshasa, 23 cases in Haute-Katanga Province, 8 cases in Central Congo Province, 8 cases in Lualaba Province and 1 case in Chopo Province. On the same day, 10 new cases were cured, 1 new death, 51 suspected cases, and 846 samples were tested on the same day. Up to now, the total number of confirmed cases in China has reached 7659, of which 183cases have died (1 case has yet to be confirmed) and 3236 cases have been cured.

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