{"id":41662,"date":"2020-07-08T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/china-first-lady-donates-anti-coronavirus-equipment-to-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T17:31:48","slug":"china-first-lady-donates-anti-coronavirus-equipment-to-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/china-first-lady-donates-anti-coronavirus-equipment-to-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"China first lady donates anti-coronavirus equipment to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Xi Jinping&#8217;s wife\u2019s support to Rwanda through the Organization of Africa First Ladies Against HIV\/AIDS (OAFLA) was presented to the Rwanda Biomedical Center, RBC on July 7, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Xing Yuchun, the Chinese Deputy Ambassador in Rwanda, said that this was a way to thank Rwanda for standing in solidarity with their country when it was threatened by COVID-19 caused by the Coronavirus virus. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis donation of medical equipment from the Chinese Government is a way of showing our friendship with the Government of Rwanda, especially from our First Lady to Rwandan First Lady,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cherish the support from Rwanda and we hope that this is going to help men and women from Rwanda to contain Coronavirus,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Xing Yuchun said that if China cooperates with Rwanda in formulating measures to prevent COVID-19, they will inevitably be able to crack it down on both countries.<\/p>\n<p>Radegonde Ndejuru, Rwandan First Lady\u2019s advisor said that after receiving the materials, Jeannette Kagame noted that they will be delivered to Rwandans to help them continue w with the fight against the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the contributions that the First Lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame, wanted to give to support the Ministry of Health to fight Covid-19 pandemic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Peng Liyuan&#8217;s support is expected to reach to other African countries as well.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis equipment is an addition to the already existing efforts and capacity to test, treat, and protect people against Covid-19. This marks partnership and solidarity between Rwanda and China against Covid-19 which is very important,\u201d Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, Director General of RBC said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will strengthen Rwanda\u2019s already existing efforts to combat COVID-19,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36151 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-118.jpg\" alt=\"Government of Rwanda received anti-coronavirus equipment as grant from the Chinese First Lady, Prof Peng Liyuan \" \/><\/figure>\n<p><img36152|center><\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36153 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-96.jpg\" alt=\"Xing Yuchun said the grant was intended to thank Rwanda for standing in solidarity with their country when it was threatened by COVID-19\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36154 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-73.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana said China&#039;s equipment will strengthen Rwanda\u2019s already existing efforts to combat COVID-19\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><img36155|center><\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36156 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-56.jpg\" alt=\"The grant consists of 12,000 body temperature testers\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government of Rwanda has received 12,000 body temperature testers and 18,000 masks as a grant from the Chinese First Lady, Prof Peng Liyuan to help in the fight against COVID-19 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-41662","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\/41662","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=41662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41662"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41662"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}