{"id":41476,"date":"2020-06-02T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/coronavirus-rwanda-uganda-kenya-agree-on-truck-drivers\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:46:01","slug":"coronavirus-rwanda-uganda-kenya-agree-on-truck-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/coronavirus-rwanda-uganda-kenya-agree-on-truck-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya agree on truck drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will start with drivers passing through the northbound lane, that is, from Mombasa in Kenya to Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after Rwanda&#8217;s new Coronavirus patients were spotted for days, with most of the truck drivers who cross the border. <\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Health, Dr. Ngamije Daniel on Monday while on National Television, said that they had already agreed with Uganda and Kenya to set up a system for checking, exchanging information, setting up drivers&#8217; parking lot, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ngamije said every driver who travels across borders will be tested first and confirmed that he is not infected. The testing is performed by a certified laboratory and will be given a 14-day driving license. <\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Health said that from Mombasa to Kigali there will be a designated space for the drivers so that they do nor mix with other members of the public. <\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, June 1, a total of 377 people had been infected with coronavirus in Rwanda, including 262 who had recovered, 114 who are still sick, and one death.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35801 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/truck-3.jpg\" alt=\"Rwandan government in collaboration with Uganda and Kenya has started a coronavirus testing and certification program for cross-border truck drivers,\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan government in collaboration with Uganda and Kenya has started a coronavirus testing and certification program for cross-border truck drivers, to prevent the spread of the pandemic.<\/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-41476","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\/41476","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=41476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41476"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41476"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}