{"id":51708,"date":"2024-10-21T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-dr-tedros-discuss-rwanda-s-response-to-marburg-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:47:42","slug":"president-kagame-dr-tedros-discuss-rwanda-s-response-to-marburg-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-dr-tedros-discuss-rwanda-s-response-to-marburg-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame, Dr. Tedros discuss Rwanda\u2019s response to Marburg outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Tedros confirmed the conversation through his X account on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a fruitful conversation with my brother, President Paul Kagame, regarding Rwanda\u2019s ongoing response to the Marburg outbreak. I expressed my appreciation for his leadership and the effective management of the outbreak response, along with his commitment to end it soon,&#8221; he shared.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tedros mentioned that they also discussed the significant investments in establishing a local vaccine manufacturing facility in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the project is &#8220;well underway and making significant progress, leveraging lessons learned from COVID-19 to address the equity challenges faced by Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tedros has been in Kigali to assess Rwanda&#8217;s response to the Marburg virus.<\/p>\n<p>The first Marburg cases in Rwanda were reported on September 27, 2024. <\/p>\n<p>According to figures from the Ministry of Health, a total of 4,715 people have been tested. <\/p>\n<p>Out of these, 60 people have been infected while  15 died. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, three patients are receiving treatment, while 44 individuals have recovered, and 1,070 people have been vaccinated against the virus.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-76066\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/i-23.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame (left) has held a conversation with the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (right).\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has held a conversation with the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, focusing on Rwanda\u2019s ongoing efforts to combat the Marburg outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000076067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000076067,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i-2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/i-2.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51708","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=51708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000076067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51708"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51708"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}