Rwandan health minister Diane Gashumba on Thursday dismissed reports saying Rwanda has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over fears of Ebola outbreak.

This photo issued on August 1, 2019 shows a health officer checking a baby's temperature at a health checkpoint in Goma, RD Congo on July 5, 2019. [File photo: EPA via IC/Patricia Martinez]

"Rwanda has not closed its border with DRC. What you are reading in media is not true, but people simply misunderstood the situation at the border this morning," Gashumba told Xinhua in a telephone interview.

People were delayed at the border in the morning as they were sensitized on signs and dangers of Ebola virus and measures to prevent themselves from being infected, she said.