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