{"id":15821,"date":"2020-04-22T06:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15821"},"modified":"2020-04-22T06:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:43:22","slug":"burundi-covid-19-five-new-people-tested-positive-while-four-patients-discharged-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-covid-19-five-new-people-tested-positive-while-four-patients-discharged-from-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi-COVID-19: Five new people tested positive while four patients discharged from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The test carried out on 198 people who have been in contact with 6 patients tested positive for COVID-19 and another suspected case revealed five new cases of COVID-19,&#8221; announced Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Health at a press conference held on 21 April.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15822\" style=\"width: 571px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15822\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15822\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ministre-sorti-hopital-covid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ministre-sorti-hopital-covid.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ministre-sorti-hopital-covid-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ministre-sorti-hopital-covid-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ministre-sorti-hopital-covid-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Health<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He added that 4 out of 5 COVID-19 patients who received medical treatment at Prince Louis Rwagasore Hospital were tested negative. &#8220;They have left the hospital on 21 April at noon. The other patient staying in hospital was tested negative for the first time. He waits to undergo the second test,&#8221; said Minister Ndikumana.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned the ministry is continuing to identify people who have been in contact with the five new COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ndikumana calls on Burundians to remain serene, to go about their daily activities while they scrupulously observe individual and collective preventive measures against COVID-19. Since its outbreak in Burundi in early April 2020, 11 cases of COVID-19 have been recorded and one death due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The test carried out on 198 people who have been in contact with 6 patients tested positive for COVID-19 and another suspected case revealed five new cases of COVID-19,&#8221; announced Thadd\u00e9e Ndikumana, Minister of Health at a press conference held on 21 April. He added that 4 out of 5 COVID-19 patients who received medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15822,"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\/15821"}],"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=15821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15825,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions\/15825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}