{"id":15404,"date":"2020-05-20T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T08:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15404"},"modified":"2020-05-20T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T08:21:11","slug":"robots-arrive-in-rwanda-to-screen-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/20\/robots-arrive-in-rwanda-to-screen-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots Arrive In Rwanda To Screen COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five humanoid robots have been delivered to Rwanda where they will assist in coronavirus screening, deliver food and drugs to patients, as well as act as video-conferencing links between patients and doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each robot has been given Rwandan name &#8211; Akazuba, Ikizere, Mwiza, Ngabo and Urumuri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their main purpose is to reduce health workers&#8217; exposure to Covid-19 patients, Rwanda&#8217;s Health Minister Daniel Ngamije told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We need additional robots for other duties like disinfection in public space and we are working to get them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The robots are manufactured by a Belgium-based company. Rwanda&#8217;s health ministry says the units have a number of abilities, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Screening 50 to 150 people per minute<\/li><li>Recording and storing patient data<\/li><li>Alerting health workers to abnormalities<\/li><li>Warning people who aren&#8217;t wearing marks, or are wearing them improperly<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda has two Covid-19 treatment facilities &#8211; one is on the outskirts of the capital, Kigali, and the other in the south-eastern town of Nyamata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The health ministry says there are 297 confirmed cases in the country, 203 recoveries and no deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>BBC Africa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five humanoid robots have been delivered to Rwanda where they will assist in coronavirus screening, deliver food and drugs to patients, as well as act as video-conferencing links between patients and doctors. Each robot has been given Rwandan name &#8211; Akazuba, Ikizere, Mwiza, Ngabo and Urumuri. Their main purpose is to reduce health workers&#8217; exposure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15406,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404\/revisions\/15406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}