{"id":14970,"date":"2020-04-27T23:56:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=14970"},"modified":"2020-04-27T23:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:56:35","slug":"uganda-stands-at-79-as-2557-samples-test-negative-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/uganda-stands-at-79-as-2557-samples-test-negative-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Stands At 79 As 2,557 Samples Test Negative for COVID \u2013 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, all the 2,557 samples tested were negative for COVID-19 at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Of these, 319 samples were from the community while 2,238 samples were from truck drivers at border points of entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases still stands at 79.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current 18 admitted COVID-19 confirmed cases are all in stable condition at Mulago National Hospital (2), Entebbe Grade B Hospital (9), Arua Regional Referral Hospital (4), Jinja Regional Referral Hospital (1), Masaka Regional Referral Hospital (1) and Kabale Regional Referral Hospital (1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 47 patients have since recovered from COVID-19 and have been discharged from hospital<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of the confirmed foreign truck drivers, 6 Kenyans and 8 Tanzanians returned to their respective countries for medication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, all the 2,557 samples tested were negative for COVID-19 at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). &nbsp;Of these, 319 samples were from the community while 2,238 samples were from truck drivers at border points of entry. &nbsp;The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases still stands at 79. The current 18 admitted COVID-19 confirmed cases [&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":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-14970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970","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=14970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14971,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions\/14971"}],"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=14970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}