{"id":41032,"date":"2020-03-18T15:40:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-has-so-far-carried-out-1200-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2020-03-20T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:16:56","slug":"rwanda-has-so-far-carried-out-1200-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-has-so-far-carried-out-1200-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda has so far carried out 1200 coronavirus tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight people have tested positive of coronavirus and have been isolated, undergoing treatment. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jean Baptiste Mazarati, Head of Department of Biomedical Services at the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) has said that when a person is suspected of having the virus, he or she is taken to a nearby hospital and placed in a designated ward, samples drawn and tested from the national laboratory. <\/p>\n<p>He told the media that the test results are released after four to five hours. <\/p>\n<p>\u201dSince the outbreak of coronavirus in China, we have tested 1,200 people, and now conducting between 20 to 30 tests every day from different hospitals in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jos\u00e9 Nyamusore,  RBC Head of Epidemic Surveillance and Response, said the seven cases who were confirmed to be infected are responding well to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are all responding to treatment and no one is in critical condition. At times you call them and find they are doing sports. In a few days, they can be re-tested and see how the results are; if the viruses are gone they can go back to their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said people should continue to avoid shaking hands and observe hygienic practices. <\/p>\n<p>The epidemic has already killed more than 7,000 people, and more than 180,000 have been infected worldwide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35245 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abantu_1200_bamaze_gupimwa_coronavirus_mu_rwanda-b009e.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jos\u00e9 Nyamusore,  RBC Head of Epidemic Surveillance and Response, said the seven cases who were confirmed to be infected are responding well to treatment.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Reference Laboratory in Rwanda  has so far tested 1,200 people of coronavirus since the outbreak of the scourge in December last year in China, a statement from the laboratory has indicated. 150 of the tests were done after the first person was diagnosed with the virus in the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2959],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-elina-jonas-ruzindana"],"bylines":[{"id":2959,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindana","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindana","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":2959,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindana","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindana","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\/41032","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\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41032"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41032"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}