{"id":43806,"date":"2021-06-29T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/government-closes-all-schools-and-offices-curfew-hours-revised\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:25:11","slug":"government-closes-all-schools-and-offices-curfew-hours-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/government-closes-all-schools-and-offices-curfew-hours-revised\/","title":{"rendered":"Government closes schools and offices, curfew hours revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curfew hours have been also revised to begin 6p.m through 4a.m.  The curfew has for the previous week started at 9p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The resolutions follow the surge in new COVID-19 cases and the emergence of new variants globally.   <\/p>\n<p>The statement released today reads that new measures will take effect in the City of Kigali, districts of Burera, Gicumbi, Kamonyi, Musanze, Nyagatare, Rubavu , Rutsiro and Rwamagana starting July 1st 2021 to be reviewed after two weeks upon health assessment.  <\/p>\n<p>Among other measures; all businesses will close by 5p.m while people are encouraged to avoid unnecessary movements.  <\/p>\n<p>Social gatherings including gatherings held in homes and family visits are prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>Offices, (private and public) are closed.  Staff shall work from home except for those providing essential services while all meetings are prohibited.  <\/p>\n<p>Schools and higher education institutions are closed.  Provisions for students sitting national exams in July 2021 will be communicated by the Ministry of Education.  <\/p>\n<p>Restaurants shall only offer take-away service. <\/p>\n<p>Places of worship are closed.  <\/p>\n<p>The remaining parts of the country, movements are also prohibited from 6p.m to 4a.m while businesses must close by 5p.m.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38780 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/statement.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38781 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/statement_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Rwanda has taken stringent measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 where all schools, public and private offices will remain closed for the next two weeks.} <\/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-43806","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\/43806","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=43806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43806"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43806"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}