{"id":44044,"date":"2021-08-02T03:20:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-reduces-price-of-covid-19-rapid-test\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T03:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T03:22:56","slug":"rwanda-reduces-price-of-covid-19-rapid-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-reduces-price-of-covid-19-rapid-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda reduces price of COVID-19 rapid test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRwanda Biomedical Center informs the public that effective 9th August 2021, the price of a rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19 in private clinics shall not exceed Rwf5, 000. The list of accredited private clinics that can conduct COVID-19 tests will be communicated soon,\u201d reads the statement released by RBC.  <\/p>\n<p>Many people have been opting for \u2018Antigen Covid-19 rapid test\u2019 but there were concerns that the cost is relatively high.<\/p>\n<p>The reduction of COVID-19 rapid test is meant to increase the number of people going for medical check-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media recently, Dr. Nsanzimana explained that Covid-19 test is likely to be integrated among packages of health services covered by Mutuelle de Sant\u00e9 but it has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently two primary types of COVID-19 tests. The first is the \u201cAntigen Covid-19 rapid test\u201d of which results are released between 15 and 30 minutes at a cost of Rwf10,000 while the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test which provides results after 24 hours costs Rwf 47, 200.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39068 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kwipimisha_covid-19_mu_mavuriro_byagabanyirijwe_igiciro_gishyirwa_kuri_5000_frw.jpg\" alt=\"RBC has announced that the price of rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19 in private clinics shall not exceed Rwf5, 000 effective 9th August 2021.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) has reduced the cost of COVID-19 rapid test from Rwf10, 000 to 5,000.}  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","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\/44044","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=44044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44044"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44044"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}