{"id":43037,"date":"2021-03-09T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T10:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandair-vaccinates-staff-against-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T10:47:35","slug":"rwandair-vaccinates-staff-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandair-vaccinates-staff-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"RwandAir vaccinates staff against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have started vaccinating our staff against COVID-19,\u201d the flight carrier revealed yesterday via Twitter handle.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda confirmed the first Coronavirus case on 14th March 2020. Like other countries where the pandemic emerged, Rwanda imposed lockdown and suspended flights to contain the spread of COVID-19.  <\/p>\n<p>Following months of suspension, RwandAir and other airlines resumed flights gradually considering the situation of the pandemic.   <\/p>\n<p>Before the rolling out of COVID-19 vaccine, RwandAir is among flight carries hailed for reinforcing anti-COVID-19 measures and consistently reporting Coronavirus updates to its destinations.  <\/p>\n<p>As of today, Rwanda has already vaccinated 208,677 in four days since the vaccination program was rolled out countrywide on Friday last week.  <\/p>\n<p>Apart from RwandAir, other airlines including Etihad Airways have already vaccinated their staff. <\/p>\n<p>The vaccines administered in Rwanda include 240,000 AstraZeneca and 102 960 Pfizer-BioNTech doses distributed through COVAX as well as 50,000 AstraZeneca doses donated by India last week.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that passengers will be required to present COVID-19 vaccination certificate before boarding.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38000 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ibikorwa_byo_gukingira_abakozi_ba_rwandair_byakozwe_kuri_uyu_wa_mbere.jpg\" alt=\"RwandAir, has started vaccinating its staff including pilots, flight attendants among others. Photo RwandAir \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda\u2019s national flag carrier, RwandAir, has started vaccinating its staff including pilots, flight attendants among others, as part of preparations for resuming normal flights to different destinations across the world.}<\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/43037","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=43037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43037"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43037"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}