{"id":13857,"date":"2020-02-11T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=13857"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T09:00:29","slug":"what-the-corona-virus-means-for-businesses-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/what-the-corona-virus-means-for-businesses-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"What the corona virus means for businesses in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the death toll in China hits over 1000, people in China\nare living under constant fear of their lives. Ugandan traders usually move to\nChina to import items for trade during February but they have rescheduled their\nflights for a later date when the situation is stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The requirements for a China VISA are also very high as they\ncan only make appointments around May. They have been advised to find other\nplaces from where they can import their items. However the traders insist that\nChina has a variety of products and great prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The traders also talked about the possibility of their stock\nrunning out as it cannot last more than one month. Most of them last went\nshopping during the Christmas season. This shows a possible case of inflation\nand lack of commodities on the market. The issues are raising from the Kikuubo\ntraders who mostly get their stock from China. They don\u2019t know the way forward\nand are very worried of the next months to follow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the death toll in China hits over 1000, people in China are living under constant fear of their lives. Ugandan traders usually move to China to import items for trade during February but they have rescheduled their flights for a later date when the situation is stable. The requirements for a China VISA are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19144,"featured_media":13843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,467],"tags":[195,143],"class_list":["post-13857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-health","tag-business-news","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13858,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions\/13858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}