{"id":43060,"date":"2021-03-11T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-first-lady-vaccinated-against-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-03-13T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T14:24:39","slug":"kagame-first-lady-vaccinated-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-first-lady-vaccinated-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame, First Lady vaccinated against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs part of the ongoing nationwide vaccination rollout that has seen more than 230,000 people vaccinated, President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame received their COVID-19 vaccines at King Faisal Hospital, \u201cthe Presidency has tweeted.  <\/p>\n<p>President Kagame and First Lady receive the vaccine; six days after the country began countrywide vaccination program starting with people in advanced ages and others providing essential services.  <\/p>\n<p>Since the program kicked off on Friday last week, over 230,000 people have been vaccinated. The Minister of Health, Dr. Daniel Ngamije was present as President Kagame and First Lady received the vaccine.  <\/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>As the first shipment of vaccines arrived in Rwanda last week, President Kagame used his Twitter handle to commend the milestone enabling African countries including Rwanda to roll out vaccinations widely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been long wait, some better prepared and more ready\u2026not to mention some \u2019more equal than others\u2019 But certainly all of us in urgent need. Now good news to see COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Africa starting with Ghana&#8230;this morning in Rwanda and more. Thanks COVAX,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38053 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_yaherewe_urukingo_rwa_covid-19_mu_bitaro_byitiriwe_umwami_faisal.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has received COVID-19 vaccine at King Faisal Hospital.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38055 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/madamu_jeannette_kagame_nawe_yakingiwe_covid-19.jpg\" alt=\"First Lady Jeannette Kagame has been vaccinated.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38054 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_na_madamu_bakingiwe_nyuma_y_iminsi_itandatu_u_rwanda_rutangiye_ibikorwa_byo_gukingira_covid-19_mu_gihugu_hose.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame and First Lady have received the vaccine; six days after the country began countrywide vaccination program staring with people in advanced ages and others providing essential services.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1041\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlCBqccoxzQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame have been vaccinated against COVID-19 during an exercise that took place at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali city. }  <\/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-43060","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\/43060","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=43060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43060"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43060"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}