A 45 year-old man succumbed to Covid-19 in Kigali on Friday, December 4, raising the country's Covid-19 death toll to 51.

The deceased is the third to be reported since this week began.

On the same day, of the 3,662 sample tests collected country-wide, 32 people tested positive for Covid-19.

Rwanda has so far conducted 638,972 Covid-19 tests in total.

Of the new cases, 13 were identified in Kigali, 7 in Musanze district, five in Muhanga distict, four in Rubavu district, two in Rutsiro district and a single positive case detected in Bugesera district.

So far, Rwanda has registered 6,043 total Covid-19 cases, out of which 5,672 have since recovered.