{"id":44364,"date":"2021-09-10T09:19:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandair-to-resume-flights-to-uganda\/"},"modified":"2021-09-11T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T09:52:40","slug":"rwandair-to-resume-flights-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandair-to-resume-flights-to-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"RwandAir to resume flights to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RwandAir had suspended flights on 10th June 2021. Five days following the suspension, the Ministry of Health announced that people coming from Uganda would be quarantined for seven days.  <\/p>\n<p>In a message posted on Twitter, RwandAir has revealed that flights to Entebbe, Uganda are set to resume in the near future.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to announce the resumption of our services to Entebbe from 17th September 2021. For booking inquiries, visit our website: http:\/\/rwandair.com,\u201d reads the tweet.  <\/p>\n<p>The decision follows the recent communiqu\u00e9 by the Ministry of Health lifting seven-day quarantine on passengers from Uganda and India.  <\/p>\n<p>The statement indicated that travellers from Uganda and India would only be required to comply with [issued COVID-19 guidelines for passengers arriving or departing from Rwanda by RBC. ->https:\/\/www.rbc.gov.rw\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/annoucement\/Info%20note%20for%20passengers%20arriving%20in%20Rwanda.pdf]<\/p>\n<p>These include; travelers arriving in Rwanda must have a negative Covid19 certificate of a SARS-CoV 2 Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) performed within 72 hours prior to departure.<\/p>\n<p>They will also be tested for COVID-19 upon arrival at the airport with a payment of US$60 (US$50for covid-19 test and US$10 for specific logistics to the airport) and wait 24 hours for the results in designated transit hotels, read the statement.<\/p>\n<p>RwandAir operates six weekly flights to Entebbe on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Frida, Saturday and Sunday.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39481 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rwandair_igid32d-56f9f.jpg\" alt=\"RwandAir is set to resume flights to Uganda.   \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{RwandAir, Rwanda\u2019s flag carrier has announced plans to resume flights to Uganda following approximately two months of suspension due to surge in COVID-19 cases.} <\/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-44364","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\/44364","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=44364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44364"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44364"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}