{"id":17552,"date":"2020-08-20T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=17552"},"modified":"2020-08-20T16:13:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:13:34","slug":"covid-19-deaths-rise-to-19-72-cases-confirmed-in-kampala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/covid-19-deaths-rise-to-19-72-cases-confirmed-in-kampala\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Deaths Rise To 19, 72 Cases Confirmed in Kampala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This afternoon, Ministry of Health has released a statement that indicates that Uganda has recorded 3 more COVID-19 deaths bringing the number from 16 to 19 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the statement, all the deceased were residents of Kampala; two were males aged 31 and 41 and the other was a female aged 57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They all passed on after admission in different private facilities in Kampala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda has also recorded 94 new COVID-19 cases with 51 alerts being from Kampala, 2 from Buvuma and Wakiso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">33 of the confirmed cases were contacts of previously confirmed cases, 21 from Kampala, 6 from Nakaseke, 3 from Wakiso, 2 from Adjumani and 1 from Koboko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the samples tested, Kampala recorded 72 positive cases from both alerts and from previously confirmed cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda now has 1,750 confirmed cases, 19 deaths and 1,194 recoveries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Ministry of Health has released a statement that indicates that Uganda has recorded 3 more COVID-19 deaths bringing the number from 16 to 19 deaths. According to the statement, all the deceased were residents of Kampala; two were males aged 31 and 41 and the other was a female aged 57. They all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25144,"featured_media":17091,"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":[356],"tags":[694],"class_list":["post-17552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","tag-covid19ug-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552","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\/25144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17553,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions\/17553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}