{"id":21638,"date":"2021-02-15T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=21638"},"modified":"2021-02-15T09:35:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:35:24","slug":"rwanda-starts-covid-vaccination-for-health-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/15\/rwanda-starts-covid-vaccination-for-health-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Starts COVID Vaccination For Health Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda has started immunising its health care workers against Covid-19, the health ministry said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An official in the ministry told the BBC that immunisation with the Pfizer vaccine started last week in a few hospitals in the capital, Kigali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a tweet, the ministry said the vaccines were acquired \u201cthrough international partnerships in limited quantities\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Morocco and Seychelles are the other African countries that have started vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials in Rwanda said there will be a wider roll-out this month with supplies expected from the Covax initiative and African Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda has so far confirmed 17,000 coronavirus cases with 239 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has started immunising its health care workers against Covid-19, the health ministry said on Sunday. An official in the ministry told the BBC that immunisation with the Pfizer vaccine started last week in a few hospitals in the capital, Kigali. In a tweet, the ministry said the vaccines were acquired \u201cthrough international partnerships in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":21639,"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":[356,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-21638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21638","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=21638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21640,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21638\/revisions\/21640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}