{"id":39769,"date":"2019-08-01T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-drc-rubavu-border-closed-over-ebola\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:34:59","slug":"rwanda-drc-rubavu-border-closed-over-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-drc-rubavu-border-closed-over-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda-DRC Rubavu border closed over Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents learned about the closure today morning as they were stopped from crossing to DRC.<br \/>\nIGIHE correspondent in Rubavu district, Olivier Mukwaya has visited the border around 9 am and found it closed with approximately a thousand of cross border traders who wanted to cross to DRC stranded at the crossing point.<\/p>\n<p>The closure of borders has been further confirmed to IGIHE by the Director-General of Gisenyi Hospital, Lt Col William Kanyankore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe borders have been closed.  More details will be provided in a communication to be released clarifying reasons for the closure,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>At least 1,676 people have died from the virus since the current outbreak started in DR Congo in August 2018, more than two-thirds of those who contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The first case of Ebola was reported in Goma on 14th July 2019 where the infected patient died within 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p>Another man in Goma was diagnosed with Ebola on Tuesday this week and died the next day, on Wednesday evening as announced by the Ministry of Health in DRC.  <\/p>\n<p>World Health Organization has recently requested not to close borders claiming it might lead to illegal entries hence spreading the outbreak. <\/p>\n<p>Elisaphan Dufitumukiza, a Rwandan who has been trading through Goma said they have been informed that the border will be closed for 21 days to find out if no new Ebola case is reported in Goma town again. <\/p>\n<p>At least 55,000 people cross through the small border known as Petite Barri\u00e8re and 77,000 through the large border, Grande Barri\u00e8re in Rubavu district on a daily basis. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31079 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rub4-70839.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31080 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rub3-5244e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31081 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rub2-ef110.jpg\" alt=\"At least 55,000 people cross through the small border known as Petite Barri\u00e8re \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31082 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rub5-c1f8a.jpg\" alt=\"Residents learned about the closure today morning as they were stopped from crossing to DRC. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31083 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rub6-87d02.jpg\" alt=\"They have been informed that the border will be closed for 21 days to find out if no new Ebola case is reported in Goma town again\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwanda-DRC border point in Rubavu district has been closed following the Ebola Virus outbreak that has been reported to have recurred in Goma town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39769"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39769"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}