{"id":14463,"date":"2020-03-10T12:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T09:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=14463"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T09:43:00","slug":"man-flees-hospital-before-coronavirus-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/10\/man-flees-hospital-before-coronavirus-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Man flees hospital before coronavirus test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe has no confirmed cases of coronavirus, but health authorities have said a man who was due to be tested in a hospital &#8220;absconded before testing was done&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 26-year-old had entered Zimbabwe from Thailand in February, officials said. He was referred from a private clinic to Wilkins Hospital in Harare on 8 March, after complaining of fever and sneezing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s health ministry said in a statement on Monday:Quote Message: He did not meet the [World Health Organization] case definition of a suspected case but was still earmarked for a Covid-19 test due to intensified surveillance that the country has adopted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He did not meet the [World Health Organization] case definition of a suspected case but was still earmarked for a Covid-19 test due to intensified surveillance that the country has adopted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the man fled the hospital &#8220;follow-up efforts to his home address were initiated and a police report was made&#8221;, the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Latest figures indicate there are now 100 confirmed coronavirus cases across Africa. They are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Egypt&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8211; 55<\/li><li><strong>Algeria<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; 20<\/li><li><strong>South Africa&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8211; 7<\/li><li><strong>Tunisia&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8211; 5<\/li><li><strong>Senegal<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; 4<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Morocco<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; 2<\/li><li><strong>Cameroon<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; 2<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Burkina Faso<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; 2<\/li><li><strong>Nigeria&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8211; 2<\/li><li><strong>Togo<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; 1<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe has no confirmed cases of coronavirus, but health authorities have said a man who was due to be tested in a hospital &#8220;absconded before testing was done&#8221;. The 26-year-old had entered Zimbabwe from Thailand in February, officials said. He was referred from a private clinic to Wilkins Hospital in Harare on 8 March, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14465,"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":[161],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-14463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463","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\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14466,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions\/14466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}