{"id":41479,"date":"2020-06-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-upcountry-travel-taxi-moto-resume\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:45:02","slug":"covid-19-upcountry-travel-taxi-moto-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-upcountry-travel-taxi-moto-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Upcountry travel, taxi-moto resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, the Western Province border districts of Rusizi and Rubavu are to remain under lockdown after several cases were recorded in their respective boundaries. <\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente, taxi-motos are permitted to carry passengers except in Rusizi and Rubavu districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic and private transport between provinces shall resume except movement to and from Rusizi and Rubavu districts. Transport of goods and cargo will continue with no more than two people on board,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>When the government announced a total lockdown in March, there are thousands of Rwandans that got stuck both upcountry and in the capital city. They have been waiting for this day of lifting this travel ban.<\/p>\n<p>The government emphasizes that the population keeps observing safety and prevention guidelines at all times.<\/p>\n<p>The curfew remains, prohibiting movements from 9 PM to 5 AM as it has been.<br \/>\nThe public and private businesses will continue with essential staff while other employees continue working from home.<\/p>\n<p>All resumed services must continue adhering to health guidelines from health authorities (hand hygiene, mask-wearing and social distancing). All traders are required to accept digital payments as an alternative form of payment. These measures will be reviewed after 15 days after an assessment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35808 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ger2_106-b9ae0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35809 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ger2_108-d781e.jpg\" alt=\"All resumed services must continue adhering to health guidelines from health authorities\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35811 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ger2_116-98530.jpg\" alt=\"The curfew remains, prohibiting movements from 9 PM to 5 AM as it has been.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35810 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ger2_109-ed56f.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi-moto to start working in passenger transportation\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35812 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ger2_2-b1949.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35813 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ger2_104-0aea1.jpg\" alt=\"Public and private transport between provinces shall resume\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an extraordinary cabinet meeting, chaired by President Paul Kagame at Village Urugwiro on June 2nd, decisions were taken to further ease the lockdown and allowing taxi-moto to start working in passenger transportation and inter-provincial traveling to start.<\/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-41479","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\/41479","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=41479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41479"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41479"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}