{"id":16595,"date":"2020-08-03T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=16595"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:05:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T07:05:27","slug":"three-ministers-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/three-ministers-test-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Ministers Test Positive For COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three cabinet ministers in Gambia have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement from the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Adama Barrow last week went into self-isolation after his vice-president, Isatou Touray, tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finance Minister Mambureh Njie, Petroleum and Energy Minister Fafa Sanyang and Agriculture Minister Amie Fabureh have also contracted the virus, the presidency said in a tweet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gambia has so far confirmed 498 coronavirus cases and nine deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government has made wearing of face masks mandatory in public places and prohibited social gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BBC Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three cabinet ministers in Gambia have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement from the presidency. President Adama Barrow last week went into self-isolation after his vice-president, Isatou Touray, tested positive for coronavirus. Finance Minister Mambureh Njie, Petroleum and Energy Minister Fafa Sanyang and Agriculture Minister Amie Fabureh have also contracted the virus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-16595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16595","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=16595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16596,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16595\/revisions\/16596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}