People who had weddings scheduled in late March and early May will have to wait longer, according to the Minister for Local Government, Anastase Shyaka.

This, he explained in a television interview, shading light to the resolutions from the cabinet meeting held on Thursday, where some services and activities were resumed.

 "There are inevitable things, like death, where we have to give a decent burial to people. But for other celebrations, we advise people to take care, so that what was a party will not turn into mourning. Just like in the previous resolutions, weddings are not allowed.”

He explained that the reason is that the whole process of a Rwandan wedding involves large gatherings of extended families, and going to church for some, among others, hence impossible to resume the activity.

"You cannot resume a single activity when everything else in its process is closed.”

Other activities that were not resumed are meetings that are not internal in an organization, public events that require physical attendance, among others. For burial events, attendees must not exceed thirty.

The minister explained that for offices, employees present must preferably be a half or even better, a third of the total employees.

The new resolutions were announced on Friday, April 1st, after more than forty days of lockdown.

As of May 30th, Rwanda has 243 COVID-19 cases, where 104 of them have recovered.