{"id":44983,"date":"2021-12-15T02:04:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T02:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/night-clubs-suspended\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T06:08:17","slug":"night-clubs-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/night-clubs-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda suspends night clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision is part of stringent measures taken by the cabinet meeting held on Tuesday 14th December 2021 to contain the spread of COVID-19.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Night clubs are suspended is is live band entertainment in other venues. Organized concerts will be approved on a case by case basis by Rwanda Development Board (RDB),&#8221; reads in part the cabinet communiqu\u00e9.   <\/p>\n<p>The new measures follow the confirmation of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>Among others, the cabinet meeting has prohibited movements between midnight (12a.m) and 4a.m while all businesses must close by 11p.m while all arriving passengers must quarantine for three days at a designated hotel at their own cost. A COVID-19 PCR test will be taken upon arrival, and an additional test will be taken on day 3 and 7 at own cost, from the arrival date at a designated testing site. <\/p>\n<p>Arriving and departing passengers at Kigali International Airport must present a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken 72 hours prior to the departure and should comply with health guidelines. <\/p>\n<p>Public officers will continue at no more than 30% capacity. Employers are encouraged to limit staff to essential workers who interface with the public. <\/p>\n<p>Private businesses are urged to continue at 50% capacity and must comply with COVID-19 preventive measures.  <\/p>\n<p>Among others, the cabinet meeting has resolved that, civil, religious and traditional weddings guests should not exceed 30% of venue capacity and must not exceed 100 persons.  <\/p>\n<p>The cabinet meeting has also resolved that services held at places of worship should not exceed 50% maximum occupancy.  <\/p>\n<p>The new measures will take effect nationwide starting December 16th 2021 for the duration of one month and may be reviewed anytime necessary upon health assessment. <\/p>\n<p>All citizens and Rwanda residents have been urged to get fully vaccinated, frequently tested and encouraged to work remotely if and when possible while continuing to observe preventive measures.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40379 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/commu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40378 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/commu_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Rwanda has suspended night clubs and obliged public offices to operate at no more than 30% capacity. Night clubs had resumed in October 2021 following more than a year and half of suspension since Rwanda confirmed the first case of COVID-19}<\/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-44983","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\/44983","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=44983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44983"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44983"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}