{"id":41152,"date":"2020-04-05T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T20:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-supports-car-eac-member-states-in\/"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:53:10","slug":"rwanda-supports-car-eac-member-states-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-supports-car-eac-member-states-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda supports CAR, EAC member states in coronavirus testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the Ministry of Health in the Central African Republic announced the ninth person in the country had been diagnosed with Coronavirus. <\/p>\n<p>CAR has expressed appreciation of Rwanda\u2019s efforts and partnership in fighting the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CAR Ministry of Health appreciates Rwanda Biomedical Center [RBC] in Kigali for the cooperation,\u201d  an official statement from CAR reads in part. <\/p>\n<p>RBC Director General Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana has told IGIHE that there is a partnership between Rwanda, some EAC member states and CAR in the fight against coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Early this year, Rwanda acquired laboratory technologies that facilitate the diagnosis of coronavirus from Robert Koch Institute for Disease Control and Prevention, German.<\/p>\n<p>Different forms of support in strengthening technical capacity at Rwanda National Reference Laboratory were obtained from the United States and the World Health Organization. <\/p>\n<p>Without mentioning the countries, Dr. Nsanzimana said there are countries in the EAC that Rwanda is supporting in testing for coronavirus. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35387 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/e00e2d94-450b-4bfd-9767-dcb839948e14-ec6e3.jpg\" alt=\"The Government of Rwanda through the National Reference Laboratory is assisting the CAR in diagnosing their population of COVID-19, caused by The coronavirus.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Rwanda through the National Reference Laboratory is assisting the Central African Republic [CAR] in diagnosing their population of COVID-19, caused by coronavirus.<\/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":[204],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-elina-jonas-ruzindaza"],"bylines":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","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":103}],"contributors":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","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":103}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41152","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=41152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41152"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41152"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}