Figure 1: Confirmed COVID-19 cases, recoveries, and deaths in Rwanda
The Rwandan Ministry of Health (MOH) has rapidly implemented additional innovative public health strategies to respond to the pandemic. These strategies include creating guidelines and forming expert teams to coordinate and organize the response plan; providing accurate, timely, and thorough information to the public; enforcing national prevention guidelines; and establishing designated treatment centers for COVID patients. Though challenges remain, the combination of these strategies has likely contributed to the prompt and effective containment of COVID in Rwanda thus far.
The government of Rwanda has activated the National Epidemic preparedness and response coordination committee, which appointed the COVID-19 National Steering committee to oversee the coordination of Joint task force coordination activities made of epidemiology operations, administrative and logistics communication, and planning units (Figure 2).9