{"id":15030,"date":"2020-04-30T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T07:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15030"},"modified":"2020-04-30T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T07:12:06","slug":"2-more-test-positive-for-covid-19-ugandas-cases-hike-to-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/30\/2-more-test-positive-for-covid-19-ugandas-cases-hike-to-81\/","title":{"rendered":"2 More Test Positive For COVID-19, Uganda&#8217;s Cases Hike to 81"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Uganda, bringing the country&#8217;s total number of confirmed cases to 81.<br>Both cases are male; a 24-year-old Ugandan and a 21-year-old Burundian refugee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new cases are contacts to a confirmed Burundian refugee case, according to Dr Henry Mwebesa, the director general health services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They are under quarantine at Rakai hospital,&#8221; Dr. Henry Mwebesa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>All 1,703 samples from truck drivers at border points of entry tested negative for COVID-19 yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u201cA total of 2,002 samples tested today,\u201d the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Wednesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda has so far registered 52 recoveries since the virus outbreak was reported in March this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Uganda, bringing the country&#8217;s total number of confirmed cases to 81.Both cases are male; a 24-year-old Ugandan and a 21-year-old Burundian refugee. The new cases are contacts to a confirmed Burundian refugee case, according to Dr Henry Mwebesa, the director general health services. &#8220;They are under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7989,"featured_media":14944,"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":[467],"tags":[633,31],"class_list":["post-15030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-covid-19","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030","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\/7989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15031,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030\/revisions\/15031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}