{"id":17602,"date":"2020-08-23T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=17602"},"modified":"2020-08-23T18:33:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T15:33:51","slug":"aigp-asan-kasingye-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/aigp-asan-kasingye-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"AIGP Asan Kasingye Tests Positive For COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This afternoon, Uganda Police Force Chief Political Commissar Asan Kasingye announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former police spokesperson is known to be very vocal on his Twitter account so he made the announcement on his platform. \u201cBad News!! I am COVID-19 positive,\u201d Asan tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asan becomes the first high ranking security personnel to reveal that the results of his COVID-19 tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the Ministry of Health confirmed that 90 cases were confirmed from the test done yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kampala continues to have the highest number of cases confirmed in the country with 59 having been confirmed from the recently conducted tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President is expected to give an address this week to give more guidelines to curb the spread of COVID-19 since the country has been registering a lot of community cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ugandan now has 2,263 confirmed cases, 1,226 recoveries and 20 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Uganda Police Force Chief Political Commissar Asan Kasingye announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19. The former police spokesperson is known to be very vocal on his Twitter account so he made the announcement on his platform. \u201cBad News!! I am COVID-19 positive,\u201d Asan tweeted. Asan becomes the first high ranking security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25144,"featured_media":17603,"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":[356,98],"tags":[163,31],"class_list":["post-17602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","tag-asan-kasingye","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17602","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=17602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17604,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17602\/revisions\/17604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}