{"id":15608,"date":"2020-06-10T10:38:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15608"},"modified":"2020-06-10T10:38:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:38:05","slug":"malawi-has-no-coronavirus-former-president-joyce-banda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/malawi-has-no-coronavirus-former-president-joyce-banda\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Has No Coronavirus \u2014 Former President Joyce Banda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malawi&#8217;s former President Joyce Banda told a campaign rally on Tuesday that the country has no coronavirus cases and accused the government of &#8220;faking&#8221; numbers,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/malawi24.com\/2020\/06\/10\/no-coronavirus-in-malawi-joyce-banda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the privately-owned Malawi24 website reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politicians are out on the campaign trail ahead of a presidential re-run on 23 June after President Peter Mutharika&#8217;s re-election last year was nullified by the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huge political rallies have defied coronavirus prevention measures like social distancing and wearing of face masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IPORMalawi\/status\/1267367579930238977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently conducted poll showed<\/a>&nbsp;that 81% of Malawians are not afraid of coronavirus and are more concerned about hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Banda is quoted as telling supporters in the northern Nkhatabay town that the government should redirect funds allocated to the pandemic to development projects &#8211; even though she had accused the government of hiding cases three months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She endorsed opposition presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malawi has so far confirmed 455 coronavirus cases and there have been four deaths and 55 recoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi&#8217;s former President Joyce Banda told a campaign rally on Tuesday that the country has no coronavirus cases and accused the government of &#8220;faking&#8221; numbers,&nbsp;the privately-owned Malawi24 website reports. Politicians are out on the campaign trail ahead of a presidential re-run on 23 June after President Peter Mutharika&#8217;s re-election last year was nullified by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15610,"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":[98,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608","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=15608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15611,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608\/revisions\/15611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}