{"id":41870,"date":"2020-08-18T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-rwanda-records-89-new-cases-59-are-from-nyabugogo-market\/"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:01:18","slug":"covid-19-rwanda-records-89-new-cases-59-are-from-nyabugogo-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-rwanda-records-89-new-cases-59-are-from-nyabugogo-market\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Rwanda records 89 new cases, 59 are from Nyabugogo market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Ministry of Health, the results were obtained from 4,018 sample tests conducted in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of confirmed cases stands is now 2,540; of which Kigali: 59 were from those tested in Nyabugogo Market, Rusizi: 25 these are from the testing in high risk groups, Huye: 2, Nyamasheke: 1<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, the country reported 13 new recoveries, raising the number of recoveries to 1,661.<\/p>\n<p>A statement was released to instruct traders of whom were working in the two big markets closed in Kigali following big numbers of COVID-19, to test for COVID-19 and to stay at home to avoid more spread of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who will not comply with this, will not be allowed to use their stand when the markets reopen,\u201d reads part of the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The country has carried out 338,288 Covid-19 sample tests since mid-March and has a record of 8 people who succumbed to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, August 16, the Minister of Health, Dr. Daniel Ngamije noted that tests within all markets in Kigali and other high-risk zones will kick off this week to determine the next steps which may as a last resort see the imposing of another lockdown.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36489 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/efpfojrxsaaat--.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda on Monday, August 17, confirmed 87 new Covid-19 cases of whom 59 were detected in Kigali among tests carried out in Nyabugogo market.<\/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-41870","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\/41870","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=41870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41870"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41870"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}