The government of Rwanda has restricted its unvaccinated citizen from accessing restaurants, hotels, bars, churches, public transport and several public services, becoming the first African country to reach thus far in implementing covid restrictions.
The
cabinet passed the measures on Friday 17 December 2021 and will be implemented
starting today Monday 20th December 2021 in the tiny central African
country which is also in the East African Community bloc.
Authorities
have been noticing the private sector and churches to implement the government
measures, to first confirm if one is fully vaccinated before they are given
services in Kigali and other urban centres in the country.
Public
transport was accessible to the unvaccinated but it has also been curtailed
this Monday, restricting movements from the capital Kigali to the countryside
in this country where nearly 60 percent live on less than $1 and fourteenth
poorest country in the world, according to the World Bank 2021.
Meanwhile,
public and private institutions have been writing letters of dismissal of all
staff who are not vaccinated throughout last week in this country where fully
vaccination means having had three jabs.
The
smallest country in its region was also the first country in Africa to impose
lockdown on 21 March 2020 followed by two more other nationwide lockdowns and
dozens of them imposed on cities, regions, districts, towns and villages.
Currently,
according to official figures, 32 per cent of the population (over 4million)
are vaccinated and authorities have been blaming “radical” bible believers,
with a single case of a Seventh-day Adventist or Pentecostal amplified to
represent all who are not accepting the vaccines.
According
to the Encyclopaedia of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Rwanda had over
800,000 Adventists in 2017 after the great Total Membership Involvement
evangelism which converted 100000 people in Rwanda.
The
SDA church has officially disowned those who don’t want to be vaccinated as
doing it on their own and called upon church followers to get vaccinated as a
way of godly care for their own bodies.
The country’s active umbrella of religions along with police, health ministry and local government have been mobilising people to get vaccinated.
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