{"id":15382,"date":"2020-03-06T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:14:03","slug":"passengers-from-covid-19-infected-countries-to-be-quarantined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/passengers-from-covid-19-infected-countries-to-be-quarantined\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers from COVID-19 infected countries to be quarantined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Public Health has said all passengers from China, France, Spain, Japan, Iran, South Korea, German and Italy will be kept in quarantine at \u2018Source du Nil\u2019 hotel in Bujumbura city for 14 days, from 6 March. \u201cThe decision has been taken to prevent any case that may come from those infected countries\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15054\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15054\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thad\u00e9-Ministre-de-la-sant\u00e9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thad\u00e9-Ministre-de-la-sant\u00e9.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thad\u00e9-Ministre-de-la-sant\u00e9-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thad\u00e9-Ministre-de-la-sant\u00e9-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Thad\u00e9-Ministre-de-la-sant\u00e9-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana: \u201cThe decision has been taken to prevent any case that may come from those infected countries\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Minister also said passengers from those countries will be welcomed by health workers operating at Bujumbura International Airport \u2018Melchior Ndadaye\u201d. \u201cThey are aware of this decision\u201d, he said. Mr. Ndikumana exhorted Burundians to remain calm as there is no case of COVID-19 already reported in Burundi so far. \u201cHygienic measures must be fully respected,\u201d he said. The Public Health Minister called on Burundians to limit their trips to those countries. \u201cIf not, they should be temporarily suspended,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On 3 March, the World Health Organization&#8217;s office in Burundi has officially handed over the Ebola Treatment Center (CTE) to the Ministry of Health. Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana indicated that the center located in Mudubugu area in Mutimbuzi commune in Bujumbura province will welcome people infected by coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Public Health has said all passengers from China, France, Spain, Japan, Iran, South Korea, German and Italy will be kept in quarantine at \u2018Source du Nil\u2019 hotel in Bujumbura city for 14 days, from 6 March. \u201cThe decision has been taken to prevent any case that may come from those infected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,670],"tags":[1414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15383,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions\/15383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}