{"id":44621,"date":"2021-10-15T14:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-receives-over-130-000-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-from-malta\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:17:15","slug":"rwanda-receives-over-130-000-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-from-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-receives-over-130-000-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine-from-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda receives over 130,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health has revealed that received vaccines are set to be directly distributed across different districts in an ongoing effort to vaccinate Rwandan residents.  <\/p>\n<p>Since March 2021, Rwanda has been receiving vaccine doses through COVAX initiative, donations from partner countries or direct purchases.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health recently announced that more than  21% of the target population of 7.8 million people (representing 60% of the Rwandan population) is fully vaccinated against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>As of today; a total of 1,712,081 people have been fully vaccinated while 2,865,234 received the first dose of COVID-19 since Rwanda began countrywide inoculation program on 5th March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The country targets to have vaccinated 30 percent of the population by December 2021 and 60% by June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The number of new COVID-19 cases has been decreasing gradually which is considered a great milestone towards defeating the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>However, citizens are reminded of the critical importance of adhering to COVID-19 health guidelines, washing hands frequently using soaps and safe water, wearing face masks and respecting social distancing to consolidate gains.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39797 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/more_vaccines_received.jpg\" alt=\"The Ministry of Health has revealed that received vaccines are set to be directly distributed across different districts. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Rwanda has received 135,690 doses of Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Maltese Government.} <\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/44621","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=44621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44621"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44621"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}