KINSHASA: Cleaners moved into the parliament of the Democratic Republic of Congo to disinfect it on Monday, under a scheme to stamp out coronavirus in central Kinshasa, the epicentre of the country´s outbreak of the disease. Cleaners clad in white suits deployed sprays and fumigators to deep-clean the Palace of the People, which is the seat of the National Assembly and Senate, AFP reporters saw. Legislators are to gather in congress in the coming days. The operation is part of a campaign to disinfect the institutional and commercial centre of Kinshasa, where almost all of the DRC´s known cases of coronavirus have occurred. Gombe, a district of embassies, corporate offices and upmarket homes next to Lingwala where the parliament is located, has been in lockdown since April 6.
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