{"id":15640,"date":"2020-04-03T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15640"},"modified":"2020-04-03T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:42:32","slug":"burundi-reports-third-case-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-reports-third-case-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi reports third case of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe third person has tested positive for COVID-19,\u201d announced Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Public Health at a press conference this 2 April.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15638\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15638\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Point-de-presse-Sur-COVID-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Point-de-presse-Sur-COVID-19.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Point-de-presse-Sur-COVID-19-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Point-de-presse-Sur-COVID-19-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Point-de-presse-Sur-COVID-19-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Public Health holding a press conference<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a 26-year-old girl tested among 23 others who had been in contact with <a href=\"https:\/\/iwacu.global.ssl.fastly.net\/englishnews\/burundi-reports-first-two-cases-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the two COVID-19 patients identified on 30 March<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u201c22 cases tested negative for coronavirus and one tested positive, &#8220;said Minister Ndikumana adding that the infected girl was living in the same house with one of the previously reported COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Health Minister says the girl is currently admitted to the COVID-19 treatment center at Prince Louis Rwagasore Clinical Hospital. &#8220;Her health is good,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ndikumana calls on the population to remain vigilant against COVID-19 and asks them to remain calm and continue to go about their daily activities while strictly observing individual and collective hygiene measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe third person has tested positive for COVID-19,\u201d announced Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Public Health at a press conference this 2 April. It\u2019s a 26-year-old girl tested among 23 others who had been in contact with the two COVID-19 patients identified on 30 March. \u201c22 cases tested negative for coronavirus and one tested positive, &#8220;said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15644,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions\/15644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}