{"id":44440,"date":"2021-09-21T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bars-allowed-to-reopen\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:27:48","slug":"bars-allowed-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bars-allowed-to-reopen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bars allowed to reopen, curfew hours revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision is part of resolutions of the cabinet meeting held today at Village Urugwiro chaired by President Paul Kagame.  <\/p>\n<p>After confirming the first case of COVID-19 on 14th March 2020, Rwanda started imposing measures to prevent the spread of the virus where some businesses including bars were closed.   <\/p>\n<p>Later on 21st March 2020, Rwanda imposed total lockdown. The lockdown was later lifted after assessing the pandemic&#8217;s situation but containment measures continued to be observed.  <\/p>\n<p>Church services,  weddings, gaming and sporting activities were also allowed to resume at different times but bars remained closed until the latest decision allowing them to reopen gradually. <\/p>\n<p>The cabinet meeting held on Tuesday 21st September 2021 has also set curfew hours at 11 p.m in Kigali through 4 a.m while movements in other parts of the country is prohibited between 9 p.m and 4 a.m with businesses closing 8 p.m.  <\/p>\n<p>The curfew in Kigali City has in previous weeks started at 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet meeting has also resolved that public and private offices will continue with essential staff at no more than 75% capacity while others continue working from home on rotational basis. <\/p>\n<p>Citizens are reminded of the critical importance of complying with health measures including physical distancing, properly wearing face masks and hand hygiene.  <\/p>\n<p>The new measures will take effect nationwide starting 23rd September through 13th October 2021.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39576 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-128.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39577 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-125.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39578 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-110.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39579 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Rwanda has eased measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and allowed bars to resume gradually following 18 months of closure.} <\/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-44440","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\/44440","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=44440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44440"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44440"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}