{"id":41256,"date":"2020-04-25T12:27:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-rwanda-records-highest-number-of-new-cases\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:20:10","slug":"covid-19-rwanda-records-highest-number-of-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-rwanda-records-highest-number-of-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Rwanda records highest number of new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new cases \u201creflect a rise in cases of cross-border truck drivers and their assistants,\u201d the ministry said in its daily coronavirus update.<\/p>\n

The confirmed cases to 176, the total number of recoveries still stands at 87.
\nSo far, no deaths have been registered.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by the Ministry of Health, Friday’s numbers reflect a rise in cases of cross border truck drivers and their assistants.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, the number of COVID-19 new cases has been going down.<\/p>\n

For the last ten days, there was no single day on which more than nine new cases were registered.<\/p>\n

The Ministry has continued urging citizens on observing preventive measures including regularly washing hands and staying at home.<\/p>\n

The Ministry is also urging the use of face masks in addition to other preventive measures.<\/p>\n

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The Rwandan Ministry of Health reported late on Friday 22 new COVID-19 cases, the largest single daily increase since the country registered its first case on March 14, bringing the total cases to 176.<\/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-41256","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\/41256","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=41256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41256"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41256"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}