{"id":41172,"date":"2020-04-07T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/huye-markets-pose-covid-19-risks\/"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:15:01","slug":"huye-markets-pose-covid-19-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/huye-markets-pose-covid-19-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Huye markets pose COVID-19 risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is said that in some markets in Huye District traders and buyers carry out transactions in close proximity to each other, posing risks of the virus spread in case one of the people is infected.  This is common in Gishamvu, Rango and Rugogwe markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Rango market, on Thursday or Sunday there are a lot of people mingling with a little caution,\u201d one of the residents told IGIHE, calling on local authorities to address the risk. <\/p>\n<p>Huye District Mayor Ange Sebutege said they are now focusing on markets and crowded centers to help people observe the social distance. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have now taken steps to ensure that if it is a market day, local leaders help people in queues to observe the recommended distance between them and comply with other preventive measures. \u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35422 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/amasoko_yaguriwe_hanze_ariko_ubona_bamwe_mu_bayarema_batita_ku_guhana_intera-a9e42.jpg\" alt=\"Residents of Huye District called upon local authorities to work on the reduction of congestion in various markets and trading centers\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35423 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/hakwiye_kongerwa_ingufu_mu_masoko_amwe_namwe_kuko_abayarema_baba_begeranye-47922.jpg\" alt=\"Huye District Mayor Ange Sebutege said they are now focusing on markets and crowded centers to help people observe the social distance. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35424 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mbere_yo_kwinjira_mu_isoko_bashyirwa_ku_murongo_kugira_ngo_hinjire_umwe_umwe-b5ac2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Huye District have commended efforts by all stakeholders in the prevention of COVID-19 but called upon local authorities to work on the reduction of congestion in various markets and trading centers<\/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-41172","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\/41172","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=41172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41172"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41172"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}