{"id":17399,"date":"2020-08-17T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=17399"},"modified":"2020-08-17T18:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T15:42:14","slug":"covid-19-death-toll-rises-to-19-as-uganda-registers-whopping-60-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/17\/covid-19-death-toll-rises-to-19-as-uganda-registers-whopping-60-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Death Toll Rises To 15 As Uganda Registers Whopping 60 New Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Health has announced that Uganda has registered two deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This brings the total COVID-19 deaths to fifteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two fatalities are both Ugandan males aged 63 and 33 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were admitted at Rubaga Hospital with signs and symptoms consistent with COVID -19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the same vein, results from samples tested on 16th August 2020 confirmed sixty new cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the sixty new cases; &#8211; twenty-eight are alerts, fourteen are contacts to previously confirmed cases, fourteen are returnees and four are truck drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding the twenty-eight alerts; &#8211; fifteen are from Kampala, five from Namisindwa, two from Luwero and six from Moroto, Arua, Gulu, Pader, Katakwi and Kasese<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the fourteen contacts to previously confirmed cases; &#8211; seven are from Kasese, four from Kampala, three from Arua, Masaka and Kikuube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fourteen returnees are broken down as follows; &#8211; nine from Saudi Arabia, two from Kenya, three from Germany, Oman and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the four truck drivers; &#8211; two arrived from South Sudan via Madi Opei while two arrived from DRC via Lia and Mpondwe Points of Entry respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-one foreign truck drivers of which 11 are Kenyans, 7 are Congolese, 2 are Eritrean and 1 is Tanzanian tested positive for COVID-19 at the border points of entry and their entry into the country was not permitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sumary-1024x945.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sumary-1024x945.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sumary-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sumary-768x709.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sumary-1536x1418.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sumary-360x332.jpg 360w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sumary.jpg 2020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health has announced that Uganda has registered two deaths. This brings the total COVID-19 deaths to fifteen. The two fatalities are both Ugandan males aged 63 and 33 years old. They were admitted at Rubaga Hospital with signs and symptoms consistent with COVID -19 In the same vein, results from samples tested [&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":[98,467],"tags":[633,31],"class_list":["post-17399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-health","tag-covid-19","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399","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=17399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17404,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399\/revisions\/17404"}],"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=17399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}