{"id":41063,"date":"2020-03-22T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T15:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/39-arrested-for-congregating-during-quarantine\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T14:53:48","slug":"39-arrested-for-congregating-during-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/39-arrested-for-congregating-during-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"39 arrested for congregating during quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, 17 people have been reported infected in Rwanda and they are being treated.<br \/>\nAccording to the Northern Region Police Spokesperson, Chief Inspector of Police Alexis Rugigana, thirty-nine people were arrested during the operation that Police conducted in homes from across the district since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the suspects are members of the Seventh-Day Church who were arrested as they were celebrating the Sabbath on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rugigana urged the general public to protect their lives and those around them by abiding with all the directives that the Government has issued to contain the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the ministries of health and local government instructed people should practice social distancing; avoiding praying in churches, in prayers\u2019 rooms and other areas like caves, These practices are banned as long as coronavirus is still in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to warn that whoever will breach the directives meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus will be brought to book.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35278 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abantu_39_batawe_muri_yombi_kubera_kurenga_ku_mabwiriza_yo_kwirinda_coronavirus-2282e.jpg\" alt=\"39 arrested for congregating during quarantine\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda National Police in partnership with DASSO have arrested 39 people in Gakenke district for breaching the government directive banning congregating as a preventive method against the coronavirus pandemic.<\/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-41063","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\/41063","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=41063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41063"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41063"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}