The Ministry of Public Health announces that two of the 165 passengers who flew in to the country on Saturday, May 2 from Abidjan tested positive for COVID-19.

The two passengers whose test results returned positive will be transferred to the hospital. Those who tested negative are urged to strictly comply with home-quarantine, and they will be daily followed up by the ministry. Any person who shows symptoms will be sent to the hospital and retested.

The test results of all the passengers on board the planes from Cairo, Jeddah, Paris, Kazakhstan and Lomé returned negative.