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Burundi starts taking COVID-19 seriously, begins screening

by Associated Press
| July 6, 2020 11:27 AM

NAIROBI,Kenya (AP) — Burundi launched a campaign of mass screening for COVID-19 on Monday, indicating that the new president is changing policies to more assertively combat the spread of the disease.

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