Rwanda on Wednesday, June 17 has recorded three new coronavirus cases in as many days.

All these new cases were drawn from 2,508 sample tests that were run on Wednesday, as per the daily update by the Ministry of Health.

In total, the country has since the first Covid-19 on March 14 taken 99,309 sample tests of the pandemic and among those 639 were detected as positive cases, of whom 347 have since recovered.

As Rwanda is counting 290 Covid-19 patients still in treatment centres, two people have so far succumbed to the virus.

In only four days, Rwanda reported a total of 129 confirmed cases mainly from Rusizi district, the western part of Rwanda, part of which is currently under lockdown.