{"id":21409,"date":"2021-02-09T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=21409"},"modified":"2021-02-09T00:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:01:36","slug":"life-is-back-kigali-residents-relief-after-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/09\/life-is-back-kigali-residents-relief-after-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Life is back&#8217; \u2013 Kigali Residents&#8217; Relief After Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a foggy Monday morning in Rwanda&#8217;s capital city, the streets are busy and people are returning to work after three weeks of lockdown to limit the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health officials say that during the last three weeks, cases and casualties of the virus have reduced considerably, in Kigali and around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Life is back, not in full this early morning, but three weeks at home were very hard,&#8221; a motorcyclist tells BBC Great Lakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Kigali, many shops have reopened, public buses and motorcyclists are back on roads and people look busy again, says the BBC\u2019s Yves Bucyana in the city, but it&#8217;s still far from normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All schools in Kigali are closed, and across the nation bars, churches, entertainment and all public gatherings are still forbidden. Plus, from Monday people must observe a dusk-to-dawn curfew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;During the lockdown, new cases have dropped from 365 per day to 150 in the country\u2026 and deaths from almost 10 to two or three per day,&#8221; Dr Tharcisse Mpunga, a top official at health ministry, told Rwanda&#8217;s state broadcaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, President Paul Kagame told a meeting with the national football team that Rwanda expect Covid-19 vaccines by the end of February, but &#8220;people would still observe preventive measures&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a foggy Monday morning in Rwanda&#8217;s capital city, the streets are busy and people are returning to work after three weeks of lockdown to limit the spread of Covid-19. Health officials say that during the last three weeks, cases and casualties of the virus have reduced considerably, in Kigali and around the country. &#8220;Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":21410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1281,482],"class_list":["post-21409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-kigali","tag-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21409","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=21409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21411,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21409\/revisions\/21411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}