KIGALI, Rwanda
Rwanda Biomedical
Center (RBC) has announced that one of the Covid-19 patients currently in a
local treatment facility has given birth to a baby boy.
“We are pleased to
announce that one of the Coronavirus patients has given birth in Rugerero
Covid-19 treatment center. Both the mother and the baby are in good condition,”
read a tweet from RBC on Friday, July 17.
The news created
brought excitement amidst the pandemic.
One Twitter user
commented, “Oooh! Thank God they are safe, those are God’s miracles”, one
tweeted.
Others commended the
efforts of the Ministry of Health for the great job they are doing in the
interest of the Rwandan population.
“Good work to RBC and
the ministry of health,” another social media user tweeted.
Since the first
Covid-19 case was reported on Rwandan soil in March 2020, it is the first time
for the country has witnessed a patient giving birth in a treatment centre.
The mother and the
baby’s identifications were not revealed, but both are currently at the
Rugerero Covid-19 treatment center in Rubavu district.
Formerly a treatment
facility built for Ebola during the time it was rampant across in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, the centre was last month repurposed and
converted into a Covid-19 treatment facility.
Rwanda’s Covid-19 cases
currently stand at 1,473 of which 770 have already recovered, while four have
so far succumbed to the virus.
Since the pandemic’s
outbreak, Rwanda focused on scaling up its testing capacity which has
surpassed 200,000 sample
tests in the last four months.
Testing and isolation
is the sole recommendation of World Health Organization (WHO) to slow the
advance of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We have a simple
message to all countries - test, test, test,” the Director-General of WHO, Dr.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva by March 2020.
“All countries should
be able to test all suspected cases, they cannot fight this pandemic
blindfolded.”
Without testing, cases cannot be isolated and the chain of infection will not be broken, he added.
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