{"id":46296,"date":"2022-08-05T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-to-administer-second-booster-dose-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:06:17","slug":"rwanda-to-administer-second-booster-dose-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-to-administer-second-booster-dose-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda to administer second booster dose of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEffective from 08.08.2022, the booster dose will be administered at all vaccination sites focusing on members of the elderly aged above 60 and others with low body immunity,\u201d reads a statement released by the Ministry of Health.    <\/p>\n<p>Figures from the ministry show that a total of 8,870,113 people (97.9%) have so far received two doses of COVID-19 while 5,269,254 (58.1%) received the first booster dose.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, the country has registered 1466 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic emerged in March 2020.  <\/p>\n<p>The types of vaccines used to administer booster doses include Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna among others. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43580 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/covid.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda will start administering the second booster dose effective from Monday 8th August 2022. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Ministry of Health has announced a plan to administer the second booster dose of COVID-19 , starting with segments of the population aged above 60 and others with weak immunity.}<\/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-46296","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\/46296","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=46296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46296"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46296"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}