{"id":41938,"date":"2020-08-31T05:31:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T05:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-rwanda-records-177-new-cases-170-from-kigali\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T11:20:58","slug":"covid-19-rwanda-records-177-new-cases-170-from-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-rwanda-records-177-new-cases-170-from-kigali\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Rwanda records 177 new cases, 170 from Kigali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday statement, August 30, 2020, shows that new patients have been identified in \u201cKigali: 170 (Kigali market cluster), Rusizi: 5, Rubavu: 2\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, 16 people have succumbed to the virus while active cases are now 2,086.<br \/>\nDue to the increasing number of new infections, the number of active cases has exceeded the number of recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities in Rwanda say that by helping Coronavirus patients to be treated in their homes, about 46 have recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus symptoms include coughing, flu, and difficulty breathing. It is transmitted through the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandans are required to continue complying 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-36613 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2020-08-30_at_20.41.20-3d407.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a daily report, the Ministry of Health said that Rwanda has recorded 177 new cases from 5,544 sample tests taken in the past 24 hours. This resulted in a total of 4,020 confirmed cases, of which 1918 have recovered including 14 discharged today.<\/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-41938","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\/41938","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=41938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41938"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41938"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}