“Movements to/from Rubavu district shall resume,” the cabinet’s statement reads, bringing to an end a month of isolation that the district was in since early June when new COVID-19 cases were reported in Rusizi and Rubavu districts, Western Province raising national concern.
The cabinet meeting chaired by President Paul Kagame agreed on maintaining public and private services operational with only essential employees going to the office and the rest working from home as it has been for more than three months.
Domestic tourism and international tourism for visitors traveling with charter flights have also been maintained.
Hotels will also remain operational and will give conference services but following strict hygiene guidelines.
However, public transport and any other movements (except for goods and cargo) are prohibited in zones under lockdown in Rusizi and Kigali.
Noncontact outdoor sports will continue, but gyms remain closed.
Motos will also continue to work respecting hygiene and other precautions guidelines despite fears that were raised a couple of days ago when 2 moto-taxi riders tested COVID-19 positive in Kigali.
The religious weddings that were reopened in the previous cabinet meeting and the civil wedding permitted much earlier will also continue with 30 participants and 15 participants respectively.
Religious ceremonies for burial and funeral were maintained with a maximum of 30 participants.
Church services will remain closed despite an earlier hope that they would open soon.
“Places of worship will remain closed. In the meantime, investment in COVID-19 precautionary and preventive measures is encouraged to allow readiness for reopening after epidemiological assessment,” part of the cabinet’s resolutions in a statement reads.
Churches have an assignment to work hard on preparations which would facilitate the government on deciding to reopen them, should COVID-19 spread slow down.
Meanwhile, bars and gaming activities remain closed while schools, as decided earlier, will open in September 2020.
It was on June 30, 2009 in the evening hours that IGIHE officially launched operations after a year of preparations that had begun in 2008, starting with no much financing but only standing on great ideas.
As the years went by, the number of services provided increased, and the clientele base expanded as confidence and trust among the public bloomed. For the past 11 years, IGIHE has also been at the forefront of the online media.
It began when the use of the Internet was beginning to take root in the country, at a time when radio was the source of information, with only one television. There were few magazines and since they all printed, not everyone could afford to buy them.
IGIHE contributed to fostering a culture of reading in three languages: Kinyarwanda, English and French; mostly Kinyarwanda. With about 51% of Internet users in the country and still rising, it has been a privilege for us to have a large number of readers.
{{How IGIHE has expanded over the past 11 years}}
IGIHE’s journey over the past 11 years has been marked by progress in all corners; having started from almost nothing, with no operational place to today where it has expanded in service delivery.
Over the years, IGIHE has become a demonstration platform to hundreds of young people who have studied journalism and other talented people in the profession, allowing them to pretty show their potential and creativity, through internships and job creation.
IGIHE started with providing one media service, then gradually expanded its operations providing other IT services such as creating and managing websites, providing video production services, audio production and various other business activities. it all comes down to helping our customers marketing their businesses professionally.
For the past 11 years, IGIHE has been at the forefront of Rwanda’s most widely read online news, according to various collections. According to the International Bureau of Statistics, Alexa ranks IGIHE as the 2nd most visited website in Rwanda right after Google.com.
According to Rwandan newspapers, IGIHE is at the forefront in having the largest number of readers, with an average of 150,000 people a day, and often more than 200,000. This has been emphasized by the annual survey conducted by the National Governance Board, RGB, which has media development in its responsibilities; there Rwandans have voted for IGIHE four times in a row as the most popular online magazine.
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The birth of IGIHE and the steps it has already taken are all thanks to you, our readers and the various partners we work with. You are ones to encourage us to continue to work day in and day out by being appreciative of what we do and also sharing with us news of what is going on so that we can improve our services to you.
This 11th anniversary reminds us that we should not take for granted the trust you have placed in us since day one, and that we must continue to build on it to improve our work, and provide better services.
It also reminds us of our role in building a professional media in Rwanda and continuing to contribute to the development of our country, in line with our vision of becoming a market for information about Rwanda for Rwandans and foreigners, and broadening the boundaries of performance, insuring that everyone in the world has access to a reliable source of information for our country. Thank you for being with us on this ongoing journey.
Especially in these extraordinary times our country and the world as a whole are in, we wish you all the best, as we all follow the instructions given by the health authorities to help us continue to fight this COVID-19 pandemic.
{{Happy Anniversary to us all. Work continues!}}
{{{The retirees include 147 commissioned officers. At least 20 left active service on medical grounds.}}}
The official send-off function held at the RNP General Headquarters in Kacyiru, was presided over by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Johnston Busingye.
The event was also attended by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dan Munyuza, Deputy IGPs; Juvenal Marizamunda of Administration and Personnel and Felix Namuhoranye of Operations.
Forty retirees represented others in the special send-off event as part of the national guidelines to prevent mass gathering or congestion to avoid spreading the pandemic of COVID-19.
Minister Busingye thanked them for their contribution in the transformation of the country.
“We are gathered here today to celebrate and thank you for the good service to your country; the resilience and exemplary character that defined your committed service in providing security for your country,” Minister Busingye said.
He reminded them that they are just leaving active service but the country still needs them in many aspects of security and development.
“Retiring with dignity is a pride that others, who were not patient enough, did not achieve. Your being here today makes you heroes for your resilience and sticking to the national and Rwanda National Police values,”
The country and those they have left behind, the Minister said, will continue to sustain and build on what the retirees achieved. He urged them to always strive to preserve what they fought for even in their new life.
“You are now joining a wider family of Rwandans that you were part of but in other capacities. Continue to work with them to build a safer country,” Minister Busingye said, while wishing them a “better life ahead.”
IGP Munyuza thanked the retired officers for their “invaluable contribution” in the policing journey and building a professional force.
“You are leaving active service but your contribution to the country will continue in many other capacities. We worked together well, you served selflessly and you are leaving the RNP family with pride and dignity. Continue to be defined by that character even in your new life,” IGP Munyuza told the officers.
With majority of the senior officers who retired, having participated in the liberation and stopping the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, IGP Munyuza observed that they “stood for the values they fought for” throughout their service and “leaving with the dignity they so deserve.”
He, however, reminded them that serving the country is for both uniformed and non-uniformed Rwandans, urging them to continue to be mentors and opinion leaders to guide and support security and development matters in their respective communities.
“RNP will continue to count on you when there is need to tap from your experience in one way or another. Remember, policing is the way of life in this era and done by both uniformed and the ordinary citizens.”
He reminded them that discipline will always be key in all spheres of life and urged them to be defined by the same in the new life they have started, and always respect the law.
CP (rtd) Faustin Ntirushwa, who spoke on behalf of the retirees, thanked all those who played part and supported them to serve ably and to retire with pride.
“We thank our President, His Excellency Paul Kagame for his strategic guidance; he instilled in us the spirit of patriotism, self-respect and self-reliance; to think big and awake at all times to fight anything that attempts to destabilize the security and wellbeing of Rwandans,” Ntirushwa said.
He added: “These are among the things that guided us in service with the support of RNP leadership that gave us training, equipped us and cared for our welfare. We are happy to have served our country in all ways we could,” he added.
He thanked their families, fellow Police officers, the media and Rwandans in general for the support, and pledged, on behalf of all the retirees, to carry on serving their country in other capacities with integrity, towards sustainable security and development.
The first agreement consists in a €40 million concessional budget loan (about Frw 42.5 billion). It will support the strategy to combat the COVID-19 epidemic and the social recovery plan drawn up by the Rwandan authorities.
Based on WHO recommendations and country health and social protection strategies, the Government of Rwanda has developed its national plans, in order to: (i) prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with the purpose to preserving and improving the health of the people and (ii) to protect the living conditions of the most vulnerable segments of the population.
AFD’s global support will provide flexibility to allow the government of Rwanda to adapt allocation of resources to the evolution of the disease.
On the Health side, the contribution will support priority measures to prevent transmission of the COVID-19, increase diagnostic capacities (tests, lab capacities), prevent and control infections in health centers (set up of isolation centers, personal protection equipment) and improve the treatment of affected patients (set up of treatment referral points). Overall, these actions will contribute in the long term to strengthening the capacities of the national health system and to improving the socio-economic livelihoods of the communities most affected by COVID-19. The health action plan is implemented by and under the supervision of the Rwanda Biomedical Center.
On the Social Protection side, the AFD facility will help Rwanda mitigate the social effects of COVID-19 on the most affected households by: (i) providing cash transfers to 150.000 vulnerable households, (ii) providing cash for works to 190.000 vulnerable households, (iii) enabling access to the nutrition program to 75.000 households with pregnant women or children under 2 years old, (iv) extending nutrition and financial support programs to more than 212.000 households from the informal sector who are not covered by the social protection system, and (v) supporting the funding of health insurance contributions for more than 1.9 million policyholders to the Rwanda Social Security Board. The Social Protection Plan is implemented by and under the supervision of the Local Administrative Entities Development Agency (LODA).
In addition to the €40 million budget support loan to the Government, AFD is also providing a grant to the tune of €2 million (about Frw 2.1 billion) to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that will support COVID-19 response to the most vulnerable households in cooperation with the Rwanda Red Cross Society and Rwandan Authorities.
This €42 million total support against COVID-19 is part of the broader #TeamEurope response which is the tangible expression of the European Union Member States solidarity to help partner countries deal with the COVID crisis. In that respect, France launched a €1.2 billion initiative in response to the worldwide public health crisis caused by the global pandemics: “Health in Common”.
A second grant agreement was signed, to the tune of € 5.8 million (about Frw 6 billion), in support of the country’s vocational training system’s development. The project will increase the employability of Rwandan youth by strengthening their technical and linguistic skills through the inclusion of modules to reinforce the teaching of French. It thus responds to the Rwandan authorities’ strategy to make the country a hub for regional growth and languages.
The funding will also contribute to the implementation of a territorial plan in the district of Rulindo, which brings together those involved in the education, entrepreneurship and vocational integration of young people. Rwanda Polytechnic, a key player in vocational training, will be in charge of the implementation of the project.
An extra € 1.7 million will be provided by AFD to French operator Expertise France, to provide technical assistance to Rwanda Polytechnic, which will bring France’s total support to € 7.5 million.
These financing agreements, to a tune of €49.5 million, are in line with France’s cooperation policy, defined around the following five thematic priorities: the fight against vulnerability, education, climate, gender equality and health. This goes together with two central and cross-cutting concerns: the environment and social cohesion.
“As part of the unprecedented global solidarity drive to address the COVID-19 health crisis in Africa, AFD is fully committed to a targeted response to the health challenges posed by this pandemic. Given the emergency situation, the Agency is mobilizing all its teams and resources to provide fair, rapid and appropriate responses to the needs expressed by our partners, with the priority objective of strengthening health systems and supporting the actors engaged in this fight that concerns us all. One year to the day after my first visit to Rwanda in June 2019, I am happy to see the progress made in reviving AFD’s activity with the government of Rwanda. These are our first commitments in sovereign financing after about thirty years. They are part of a revival dynamic for our two countries partnership, at the service of the Rwandan population and in particular their youth”, says Rémy Rioux, AFD Chief Executive Officer.
“The signing of these financing agreements marks an important step in the revival of relations between France and Rwanda. I am profoundly delighted. The € 40 million budget loan demonstrates France’s determination to stand by Rwanda to address the health aspects of the COVID-19 epidemic and to support social measures that benefit the populations most affected by the economic impact of the crisis. This loan is part of the commitment of Team Europe (the European Union and its Member States) to support Rwanda’s determined action against COVID-19. The € 5.8 million grant materialises our desire to support Rwanda’s ambitious development strategy by backing the vocational training sector in order to promote access to employment for young Rwandan men and women. I hope that AFD’s reengagement in Rwanda will continue in the spirit of partnership that presides over Franco-Rwandan relations” says Jérémie Blin, Chargé d’affaires of the French Republic to Rwanda.
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The budget will be funded by 40% from the state treasury; 40% from taxes and duties levied by the City of Kigali while the rest will be supported by development partners.
Infrastructure projects will account for about 51% of the budget, while other projects will account for 49%.
It will include roads and alleys that will first be completed, improve traffic in Kigali City, light various roads, and build more than 30 kilometers of new roads.
The budget will also cater for relocation of residents in high risk zones in Nyabisindu, Gatenga, and Nyagatovu as well as construction of homes for the needy.
Poverty alleviation programs will account for 4.9% of the budget, with 49,000 new jobs created and co-operatives set up to uplift members’ livelihoods.
In other projects, this budget will find construction of 1,634 classrooms, 2263 toilets and three new health facilities.
The Mayor of the City of Kigali, Pudence Rubingisa, said the 19% reduction was based on loans and donations from donors that had not returned to this year’s budget.
Last year there was a major 54-kilometer road project worth Rwf 29 billion.
He said that in general, the revenue of the City of Kigali and its revenue will increase.
The activities of the City of Kigali are planned in the budget based on the national vision but especially on the vision to have Kigali as a model city by 2050.
Over the past two weeks, many Rwandans including senior government officials, media personalities, professionals, academicians and influencers, among others, have joined the challenge to educate and influence the general public on safer practices to prevent the spread of the pandemic.
RNP spokesperson, Commissioner of Police (CP) John Bosco Kabera (@RNPSpokesperson), on Monday twitted: “So far, the only solution we have for fighting Coronavirus is to follow the instructions! Those placed under #GumaMuRugo (lockdown), be compliant; those in different tasks and errands, respect the safety directives.
I respect it too; #NtabeAriNjye to be infected or to infect others with Coronavirus. Be responsive, add your voice.”
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Johnston Busingye (@BusingyeJohns), said: “Covid-19 statistics are available every night. We know how the virus is spread.
The reason why cases continue to be detected in new places is because you and I did not comply with the recommended precautionary measures. Watch out! Beware! Beware! Beware. #SimbeariNjye.”
The Minister of Sports, Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju (@AuroreMimosa), reminded the general public to respect the sports guidelines.
“Fight Covid-19, #NtabeAriNjye; don’t be the reason for sports activities, once again, to be allowed only indoor. When you are in sports activities, follow the directives; leave at least one-meter distance between two people. Remember, sports in groups are prohibited,” Minister Munyangaju said.
Mugisha Nathan (@nathism2), the founder and Chief Executive Officer at Bliss creations produced a 45-second video that educates the public on safety practices.
“I produce 45 seconds video every day in [an] initiative that I called 45 stories for change. Today (June 28), I made a video on @Rwandapolice program called #ntabearinjye,” Mugisha twitted.
Robert McKenna Cyubahiro (@RobCyubahiro), a presenter at Magic FM, said: “… help Police in #NtabeAriNjye. Help your Akagali (Cell) in sensitizing youth on the need to protect themselves against Covid-19…”
Sushona (@Charitebrown) observed that most people wear facemasks because they are forced rather than making it an individual safety choice.
He said: “[The] fact is… people wear masks because of police not [because of] Covid-19. Much respect to POLICE. #NtabeAriNjye.”
“#NtabeAriNjye, let’s keep the spirit and we shall overcome,” one Isaiah (@Isaiah80721250), twitted.
To Yves Emmanuel Turatsinze (@Turatsinze_Emma), he reminded Rwandans to keep on exercising caution and keeping measures intended to restrain the spread of this virus. “#NtabeAriNjye, who continues spreading Covid-19 in Rwanda.”
RNP spokesperson, CP John Bosco Kabera commended the role the public continues to play to make NtabeAriNjye campaign a reality.
“Every voice counts. We laud those, who have made NtabeAriNjye campaign their responsibility to supplement national efforts in combating the pandemic of Coronavirus. It is through such responsive spirit of ownership that we will win,” CP Kabera said.
He added: “The campaign reminds each and every one of us to wash our hands with soap and clean water regularly or to use alcohol-based hand sanitizer; to avoid unnecessary movements and journeys; to respect social distance
When Covid-19 first hit Rwanda, one of the measures taken by the government to prevent it’s spreading all was to pay employ mobile money transactions.
When community cases appeared among motorcycle riders, the Ministry of Health said they are using the technology to track down those that were in contact with the riders, especially passengers that will have paid through mobile money platforms.
In a press conference on June 28, Minister of Health, Dr. Ngamije Daniel reiterated the importance of using digital money transfers in monitoring suspects.
“We have a track record of people who have been transported, especially when they use mobile money to pay, which allows us to reach out to those people and check them out,” he said.
He urges Rwandans to continue paying motorists by phone because it is beneficial for them.
Ministry of Health says that since the motorcyclists returned to work on June 3, a few days later they appeared to be infected with the pandemic and are spreading it.
So far, the number of people infected with COVID-19 in Rwanda is 900, including 22 infected as of June 29, while the number of the recoveries is 443, and 2 deaths.
However, there were solutions: keep the genocidal guide in quarantine for three days, escort the Tutsi on foot to the French camp in Gishyita (an hour on foot), while night was falling and the genocidaires had returned home, escorting them to Kibuye where they would have arrived at 9 p.m., leaving French soldiers on the spot until reinforcements arrived. There were solutions.
Then the second round of the Bisesero genocide will be able to be set up exactly according to the conditions which prevailed in the massacre of the fifty thousand Tutsi civilians a month and a half earlier in the same place. Once the guide has informed his hierarchy, the Interahamwe [genocidal militia formed by French soldiers of Operation Noroît in 1992 and 1993] are called from other regions (Cyangugu, Gisenyi…). As was the case a month and a half earlier, buses full of murderers are sweeping over Bisesero. As was the case on May 13, the Tutsi saw the reappearance, in the hands of the killers, of these new sharp machetes on both sides, and of which former genocidaires remember today that soldiers of Turquoise distributed them by taking them from their boxes of their Jeep then parked at Colonel Simba’s in Cyangugu.
There ends the comparison. At the end of June, the Tutsi are only two thousand. On the morning of May 13, there were fifty thousand. At the end of June, exhausted, decimated, the Tutsi could only hide. Before May 13, their courage and their intelligence had led the Interahamwe to fear these men, women and children in rags and unarmed! So why couldn’t the Tutsi have withstood the May 13 massacre? Here is the answer.
Faced with so much bravery, the genocidaires had become afraid and no longer wanted to risk their lives to exterminate them. Therefore, a solution had to be found to overcome the last pocket of resistance to the genocide. White soldiers were called in to supervise these genocidaires from everywhere and to give them courage. The scenario was simple: encirclement of the mountains by the Hutu population supervised by the Interahamwe, then opening of heavy weapon fire by the white soldiers, then machine gunning by the white and Rwandan soldiers, finally entering the scene with the Interahamwe and Hutu population finishing the fewsurvivors.
All the Tutsi, among the survivors of the May 13 massacre, did not see the Whites during this great massacre. The latter were in fact only several dozen among a crowd of thousands of Rwandan genocidaires. But they were in charge. Some Tutsi only saw them on May 12, during the preparation for the massacre, others only saw them on the 13, others on both days, others did not see them at all.
Now back to June 27. Why do those Tutsi who saw the Whites of May 13 then trust French soldiers when they come out of their hiding place? An answer is given to us by Simeon Karamaga, deputy chief of the resistance at Bisesero.
Simeon only saw them on May 12, when they gathered in Ruhuha with the Rwandan genocidaires. When asked why he discovered himself to join the French soldiers on June 27, he who had just detailed the circumstances in which he had seen Whites joining his assassins the day before the great massacre a month and a half earlier, he replied: “There they called us. Imagine yourself dying for a long time. If someone calls you to tell you they’re going to save you, you don’t hesitate. “(Interview with Simeon Karamaga: http://www.bisesero.net/pages/l-enquete/extraits-filmes-de-temoignages.html)
This is what said other Tutsi survivors who had in memory these Whites of May 13 when they decided to discover themselves. They have nothing left to lose. Besides, aren’t these white people deployed on a humanitarian mission? Why, they may legitimately wonder, would they necessarily have a link with those of May 13?
Now let’s ask ourselves. On June 27, 1994, there was an opportunity to show the press that Operation Turquoise was there to save civilians threatened with massacre. Why then deprive yourself of such a demonstration in front of the journalists then present in the convoy? The opportunity was however unexpected! Tutsi civilians being exterminated come out everywhere and ask for the protection of the French humanitarian mission, all this in front of journalists! It’s a gift for Turquoise communication! So why not take this opportunity to make the front page of all the newspapers? Why ?
This question I am asking here is one that I was once asked to take into account by Bruno Boudiguet, author of “Friday the 13th in Bisesero”. I think he had just realized the reason for Turquoise’s abandonment of the Tutsi from Bisesero on June 27, 1994.
Because the answer to the question may well be that risk should not have been taken that survivors testify to the active participation of these white soldiers (French for some witnesses) in the May 13 massacre. And then as for the demonstrations to the press of the alleged humanitarian character of Turquoise, was it not the Nyarushishi camp that had been chosen to fulfill this function?
Simeon Karamaga died last May. He is one of those rare men whom you are given to meet in your life, rare by an exceptional courage such that it would have been necessary to call on external forces with heavy weapons to overcome men and women like him, ragged civilians with sticks and stones! So let’s not be silent on the sole reason why the Tutsi of Bisesero were defeated on May 13, at the risk of depriving them of the honor they deserve.
To do this, we need to listen to all the witnesses without sticking to those who have not seen the May 13 Whites. Rwandan television viewers heard some of Bisesero’s survivors testify to the active participation of Whites in this great massacre. The fact remains that these survivors suffer from the fact that their country, with too few exceptions, relay their word insufficiently.
There is a long list of survivors who do not understand that the story they bear witness to is still not accessible in memorials. They are at their disposal. History is written slowly, but witnesses are not eternal. Today it is time to offer to the fifty thousand Tutsi who died for the most part on May 13 under the fire of heavy weapons, the one and indivisible truth for burial.
Serge Farnel is the author of Rwanda, May 13, 1994. A French massacre? (Aviso / L’esprit Frappeur-2012) and Bisesero. The Rwandan Warsaw Ghetto (Aviso-2014).
His investigation into the active participation of white soldiers in the great genocidal massacre of May 13, 1994 in Bisesero is recorded on the website: www.bisesero.net (in French) a version of which is also available in English: www.bisesero.net/en This investigation was continued by Bruno Boudiguet, author of Friday the 13th in Bisesero (Aviso-2014).
President Kagame, who is also the Chairman of the ruling party Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi), on Friday was presiding over the party’s Extended National Executive Committee meeting at the party headquarters in Rusororo.
“The pandemic itself seems to be still here with us. Some say it is actually just starting. Much as I said earlier that we have been able to overcome it and many of those who contracted it are still alive, whatever measures we have put in place to prevent it must continue,” said the Head of State
“If anything, we need to do more to reinforce these measures further to continue managing it. This is something we cannot play around with. Those who investigate the virus on a daily basis, including scientists and researchers, are yet to fully figure everything about the Coronavirus, the new one as it is”
President Kagame assured that scientists are still trying to understand all about the virus so us to come up with a solution in the near future; this includes a possible vaccine or medication but until that happens, the preventive measures remain the same.
“How we conduct ourselves as individuals in terms of protecting ourselves further translates into protecting others as well,” President Kagame said,
Other safety measures including wearing a safety mask help safeguard of self and others while social distancing and avoiding the culture of hugging and getting close are all key in minimizing the spread.
Rwanda has so far registered 858 cases following 8 more cases which were recorded on Friday out of 3,763 tests conducted. Four of the cases were detected in Kigali while the other four are in Rusizi.
The Ministry of Local Government, on Thursday, issued new directives in line with preventing the spread of Coronavirus.
Under the new directives, the following villages in Kigali were put under lockdown for at least 15 days:
Kamabuye and Zuba villages of Nyarurama cell as well as Nyenyeri village in Bwerankori cell; all in Kigarama Sector in Kicukiro District;
Rugano village in Kanunga cell of Gikondo Sector in Kicukiro District; as well as the villages of Kadobogo and Gisenga in Kigali cell, Kigali Sector in Nyarugenge District.
Movements in these affected villages are only restricted to emergency services with civil servants and those working in private institutions residing in these areas directed to work from their respective homes.
Rwanda National Police (RNP) spokesperson, CP John Bosco Kabera advised people living in these villages to be compliant for their safety and that of others.
“There is a reason as to why these specific villages were put under lockdown, which is to ensure their safety from catching or spreading COVID-19 to their families, neighbours, the community or even to other neighbouring villages and sectors,” said CP Kabera.
“Your home is your safety and no one should force you to ensure your safety, be the first respondent to you safety.
Avoid unnecessary movements because you will be arrested and penalized accordingly; go straight back home after acquiring the essential or emergency services; visits are not allowed, practice social distancing and wear facemask whenever you go out of your home for essential services; wash or sanitize your hands regularly.”
The spokesperson further urged people neighbouring the villages placed under lockdown, to refrain from going to these villages to avoid catching and spreading the virus to other places.
Police officers, he said, have been deployed in these villages to ensure compliance.
