{"id":41790,"date":"2020-07-31T22:26:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-rwanda-confirms-31-new-cases-lockdown-lifted-in-some-kigali-city\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T07:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T07:23:36","slug":"covid-19-rwanda-confirms-31-new-cases-lockdown-lifted-in-some-kigali-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-rwanda-confirms-31-new-cases-lockdown-lifted-in-some-kigali-city\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Rwanda confirms 31 new cases, lockdown lifted in some Kigali City neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the said patients, 13 are from Kigali and 11 people were identified in Rusizi district. They were tested in villages in lockdown. With 4 cases also, Nyamasheke in the Western Province and the other three cases were detected in Kirehe, Kayonza and Rubavu.<\/p>\n

To date Rwanda has 904 active cases with five lives lost so far.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Health Daniel Ngamije warned the general public that several businesses could remain closed for much longer because some people are taking the virus for granted.<\/p>\n

He said for example, that schools cannot open while the country is still recording 40 cases per day.<\/p>\n

A statement from the Ministry of Local Government indicates that the lockdown on Kamabuye and Zuba villages, both in Nyarurama cell, Kigarama Sector in Kicukiro District, were removed.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Nyenyeri village in Kigarama sector in Kicukiro District will also be allowed to go back to normal life.<\/p>\n

However, three sub-cells in the same village (Kigarama) which include Ubutwari, Icyerekezo and Gukunda Igihugu have been put under lockdown.<\/p>\n

However, villages of Tetero, Indamutsa, and Intiganda from Tetero cell, Muhima sector in Nyarugenge district will remain in the lockdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe citizens of the villages under lockdown are requested to continue respecting the guidelines,\u201d reads part of the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal authorities and security authorities are asked to follow-up on the implementation of these guidelines. People living in Rwanda are requested to continue respecting the guidelines of preventing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic as issued by health institutions,\u201d appealed. <\/p>\n

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Rwanda has confirmed 31 new cases recorded from 4,066 test samples, bringing the number of cases to a total of 1,994 while 49 new recoveries were recorded bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,085.<\/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-41790","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\/41790","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=41790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41790"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41790"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}