{"id":14865,"date":"2020-05-31T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=14865"},"modified":"2020-05-31T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T07:09:41","slug":"rwanda-registers-first-covid-19-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/14865","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda registers first COVID-19 death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KIGALI, Rwanda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rwanda registered its first fatality Saturday from COVID-19 as , according to health officials.<\/p>\n<p>A truck driver, 65, who returned to Rwanda after falling ill in a neighboring country, died from severe respiratory complications, said the health ministry. The victim had been receiving intensive care treatment at a specialized COVID-19 facility.<\/p>\n<p>Global COVID-19 cases topped 6 million Saturday, according to US-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda eased a coronavirus lockdown May 4, allowing businesses to resume with essential staff.<\/p>\n<p>But restrictions on movement to and out of the capital of Kigali is expected to be eased June 1 as well as lifting restrictions on the operation of commercial motorcycles. The country\u2019s borders also remain closed.<\/p>\n<p>Four new COVID-19 cases were registered Saturday bring the number to 359 with 250 recoveries. The country has 108 active cases.<\/p>\n<p>At least 66,976 tests have been conducted, according to the country\u2019s health ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIGALI, Rwanda Rwanda registered its first fatality Saturday from COVID-19 as , according to health officials. A truck driver, 65, who returned to Rwanda after falling ill in a neighboring country, died from severe respiratory complications, said the health ministry. The victim had been receiving intensive care treatment at a specialized COVID-19 facility. Global COVID-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14866,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions\/14866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}