{"id":16495,"date":"2020-07-28T13:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T10:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=16495"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:53:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T10:53:32","slug":"museveni-says-hes-tested-negative-for-covid-warns-two-deaths-are-jaribu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/28\/museveni-says-hes-tested-negative-for-covid-warns-two-deaths-are-jaribu\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni Says He&#8217;s Tested Negative For COVID, Warns Two Deaths Are &#8216;Jaribu&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presidet Yoweri Museveni has warned Ugandans of the threat posed by the coronavirus saying the two people it has claimed are just a &#8216;sample&#8217; of what it can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Museveni sounded the warning on Tuesday after being nominated as the NRM Party presidential flag bearer for the country&#8217;s general polls next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If you wanted to see death, you have now seen them. We have been begging you not to die. These two are &#8220;endoozo, jaribu&#8221;. Museveni said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country on Sunday registered it&#8217;s second COVID-19 death, an 80-year-old who passed away in Mengo, a Kampala city suburb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Museveni who was speaking with a hoarse voice revealed he had done tests which turned out negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I apologise for the hoarse voice, I had some sore throat. My first fear was that I had got coronavirus, so I called the doctors to take a sample,\u201d Museveni said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the health ministry announced that seven new cases of the virus had been confirmed bringing the total of cases to 1, 135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidet Yoweri Museveni has warned Ugandans of the threat posed by the coronavirus saying the two people it has claimed are just a &#8216;sample&#8217; of what it can do. Museveni sounded the warning on Tuesday after being nominated as the NRM Party presidential flag bearer for the country&#8217;s general polls next year. &#8220;If you wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":16498,"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":[356,458],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-16495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-featured","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495","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=16495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16501,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions\/16501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}