12th March 2020

Again, I am back to Rulindo to work with the SNECOs. It rains heavily and we are stuck in a school for a long period of time.  The Moto drive there and back more than makes up for it, up and down hills with fantastic views over countryside.  On the way back I notice we’re above the clouds.

People in the UK and US are panic buying, but bizarrely it’s toilet roll that they’re stocking up on.  I hear from friends in the UK about the extortionate prices that some shops are charging, and the lengths that people are going to to get some. I tell the Rwandans I work with what is happening and they seem perplexed.  They don’t understand the significance.  When I tell them it’s because they’re worried they will run out, they don’t say anything.  It’s sort of embarrassing.

In Italy C-19 deaths rise to over 1,000 with cases in the country passing 15,000.

Trump has suspended all travel to US from European countries – except the UK – for 30 days.

UK: 590 cases (Day 41)

US: 987 cases (Day 50)