{"id":16403,"date":"2020-07-23T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=16403"},"modified":"2020-07-23T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:12:21","slug":"uganda-gets-first-coronavirus-death-case-in-mbale-ministry-of-health-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/23\/uganda-gets-first-coronavirus-death-case-in-mbale-ministry-of-health-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Gets First Coronavirus Death Case in Mbale, Ministry of Health Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ministry of Health has confirmed that the death that occurred yesterday that it was previously investigating\u00a0of a 34-year-old female who passed away\u00a0\u00a0 at a Clinic in Mbale in indeed a COVID-19 case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deceased, is a Kenyan national married to a Ugandan. This means that Uganda has confirmed her first Covid19 death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the deceased had been admitted with COVID-19 related symptoms that included fever, headache and difficulty in breathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samples were obtained from the body and are were tested at Uganda Virus Research Institute UVRI in Entebbe and these have turned out positive of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the outbreak of the virus in Uganda in March, Uganda had not recorded a single Covid19 death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Health has confirmed that the death that occurred yesterday that it was previously investigating\u00a0of a 34-year-old female who passed away\u00a0\u00a0 at a Clinic in Mbale in indeed a COVID-19 case. The deceased, is a Kenyan national married to a Ugandan. This means that Uganda has confirmed her first Covid19 death. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7989,"featured_media":16404,"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":[612,31,144],"class_list":["post-16403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-coronavirus","tag-featured","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403","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=16403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16405,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403\/revisions\/16405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}