{"id":44034,"date":"2021-07-30T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/lockdown-lifted-in-kigali-city-eight-districts\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T09:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T09:46:36","slug":"lockdown-lifted-in-kigali-city-eight-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/lockdown-lifted-in-kigali-city-eight-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown lifted in Kigali City, eight districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision is part of resolutions of the cabinet meeting held today chaired by President Paul Kagame.  <\/p>\n<p>The lifted lockdown [was initially imposed from 17th till 26th of July 2021.->https:\/\/en.igihe.com\/news\/article\/kigali-city-eight-districts-placed-under-lockdown] It was later extended for five days to contain the spread of COVID-19.  <\/p>\n<p>Among others, movements between and other provinces and districts of the country are allowed except movements from and to [selected sectors recently placed under lockdown.  ->https:\/\/en.igihe.com\/news\/article\/rwanda-puts-fifty-sectors-under-lockdown]<\/p>\n<p>Movements are also prohibited from 6p.m through 4a.m while all businesses must close by 5p.m.  <\/p>\n<p>Public and private offices are allowed to reopen at 15% capacity while other employees must continue working from home. <\/p>\n<p>Private businesses shall continue operations with essential staff at no more than 50% capacity. <\/p>\n<p>Meetings and conferences are allowed not exceeding 30% of venue capacity, public transport should not exceed 50%, restaurants and caf\u00e9s are allowed providing takeaway services only. <\/p>\n<p>Civil and religious weddings are also allowed to a maximum of 10 people but all guests must present negative COVID-19 tests within 72 hours.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39057 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/amen_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39058 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/amen_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39059 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ameni_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39060 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/amina_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Rwanda has lifted lockdown in Kigali and eight districts including Burera, Rubavu, Gicumbi, Kamonyi, Musanze, Rutsiro, Rwamagana and Nyagatare. } <\/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-44034","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\/44034","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=44034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44034"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44034"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}