{"id":42509,"date":"2020-12-24T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-sends-quick-recovery-wishes-to-macron\/"},"modified":"2020-12-26T08:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T08:02:35","slug":"kagame-sends-quick-recovery-wishes-to-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-sends-quick-recovery-wishes-to-macron\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame sends quick recovery wishes to Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kagame conveyed the message via his Twitter handle last night. \u201cBelatedly but heartily wishing President of France Emmanuel Macron speedy recovery into healthy Festive Season and beyond,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace said yesterday that French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s health is showing signs of improvement after he tested positive for Covid-19 on December 17. <\/p>\n<p>Macron tested positive for the virus on Thursday, showing symptoms of fatigue, coughing and muscle aches.<\/p>\n<p>The president, who self-confined in an official residence near Paris from where he is running meetings remotely, had promised daily updates on his health. <\/p>\n<p>He is now &#8220;showing signs of improvement&#8221;, the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace said, without giving details.<\/p>\n<p>All previous daily updates had said that the 43-year old president was in a &#8220;stable&#8221; condition.<\/p>\n<p>According to France 24 news medium, the French authorities are concerned that the holiday period could see a new spike in infections, after the country&#8217;s total Covid-19 death toll went above 60,000 last week.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said late Tuesday that nearly 12,000 new cases had been reported in the previous 24 hours, and 386 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>A vaccination campaign is to start on Sunday, with health workers and older people among the first to get Covid-19 shots, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>The EU gave the green light for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, paving the way for the first inoculations to start across 27 countries soon after Christmas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37427 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_emmanuel_macron_urwaye_coronavirus_yanakomeje_imirimo_ye_ariko_iba_hifashishijwe_ikoranabuhanga.jpg\" alt=\"President Macron  self-confined in an official residence near Paris from where he is running meetings remotely.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has extended his best wishes to his counterpart of France, Emmanuel Macron who has been infected with COVID-19. } <\/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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42509","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=42509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42509"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42509"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}