Rwandan authorities have continued to strengthen Ebola prevention measures along border areas while allowing limited movement for essential travelers.

Reports indicate that students, humanitarian workers, food suppliers, and returning residents will still be permitted to cross under enhanced health screening procedures.

Citizens have been urged to maintain strict hygiene practices, including washing hands regularly with soap and clean water, avoiding handshakes, limiting non-essential travel to Ebola-affected zones, and immediately seeking medical care if symptoms such as fever, body pain, or bleeding appear.

The tighter controls at Rusizi District follow the earlier closure of border crossings in Rubavu District on May 17, 2026, due to concerns that the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo may have reached the city of Goma.

Although surveillance and preventive measures have been intensified, the Ministry of Health Rwanda stated on Sunday evening that no Ebola patient had been identified in Rwanda.