{"id":43623,"date":"2021-06-01T02:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/traditional-weddings-receptions-resume\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T06:59:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T06:59:54","slug":"traditional-weddings-receptions-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/traditional-weddings-receptions-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaxed: Traditional weddings, receptions resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cabinet meeting that convened yesterday at Village Urugwiro was chaired by President Paul Kagame. It also reviewed other COVID-19 preventive measures. <\/p>\n<p>Traditional weddings and related receptions have been allowed to resume following nearly a year and half under restriction.    <\/p>\n<p>Usually Religious and civil wedding have been allowed with minimal attendance of 20 persons observing COVID-19 health guidelines.  Receptions were not allowed that whoever caught violating the directive was subject to penalties. <\/p>\n<p>The cabinet decision has lifted these restrictions for introduction and dowry giving that had been put on halt.  <\/p>\n<p> \u201cTraditional wedding and related receptions shall resume not exceeding 30 people. However, when conducted in open gardens\/hotels, entertainment venues or open gardens, they should not exceed 30% of venue capacity and COVID-19 testing will be required,\u201d reads part of the cabinet communiqu\u00e9.  <\/p>\n<p>Among others, outdoor sports has is allowed and must comply with health preventive measures.  <\/p>\n<p>The cabinet meeting also allowed gaming operators to resume activities gradually upon fulfilling COVID-19 preventive measures.  <\/p>\n<p>Curfew hours have been maintained between 10pm to 4am while all businesses shall close by 9pm.   <\/p>\n<p>However, special measures have been set for Karongi district where curfew starts from 7PM-4AM due to the increase of new COVID-19 cases. <\/p>\n<p>New measures take immediate effect from 1st June 2021 to be reviewed after one month upon health assessment.  <\/p>\n<p>Among others; all bars will remain closed, places of worship adhering to health guidelines will continue to function at 50% maximum occupancy, public transport buses should not exceed 75% capacity, physical meetings will continue not exceeding 30% of venue capacity while public and private offices will continue with essential staff at no more than 50% capacity as other employees continue to work from home on a rotational basis.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38579 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cabinet_measures.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38580 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/measures_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38581 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/measures.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38582 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/measurs_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38583 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/measures_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38584 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/measures_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38585 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/measures_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The cabinet meeting held on Monday 31st May 2021 has lifted COVID-19 restrictions whereby traditional weddings and related receptions have resumed not exceeding 30 persons. Gaming activities have been also allowed to resume. }  <\/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-43623","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\/43623","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=43623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43623"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43623"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}