{"id":41882,"date":"2020-08-19T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-rwanda-records-two-deaths-in-one-day\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:23:15","slug":"covid-19-rwanda-records-two-deaths-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-rwanda-records-two-deaths-in-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19:  Rwanda records two deaths in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCondolences to families of two Rwandans 45 years old and 55-year-old who passed away today,\u201d wrote the Ministry of Health in the August 18 update. <\/p>\n<p>On the same day, the country also confirmed 37 new cases, bringing the total number of cases to 2577 and the active cases, 884.<\/p>\n<p>The update also states that of the new cases Kigali recorded 28 these are contacts of positive cases &#038; testing in high risk groups, Rusizi has 6 cases while Rwamagana, Rubavu and Huye each recorded one case.<\/p>\n<p> Rwanda has so far registered 1,683 recoveries after 22 patients who were discharged on August 18.<\/p>\n<p>The general public is very much concerned by the increasing number of cases in the capital Kigali that has led to the closure of two big markets of Nyabugogo-Kwa Mutangana and the Kigali City Market.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Health said that they will conduct a general test in the near future to see whether another lockdown could be an option to consider.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of Coronavirus include coughing, colds, and difficulty in breathing; it is transmitted through the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandans are required to continue to comply with government regulations, especially with frequent washing of hands and water and soap, wearing masks when leaving home or in public.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36504 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/efuufevwkacigbr_1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda recorded two deaths of COVID-19 in a single day, bringing the number of deaths to ten since the outbreak of the pandemic.<\/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-41882","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\/41882","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=41882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41882"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41882"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}