{"id":17704,"date":"2020-08-26T11:07:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T08:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=17704"},"modified":"2020-08-26T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T08:17:08","slug":"ubc-confirms-10-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/ubc-confirms-10-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC Confirms 10 COVID-19 Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning the Managing Director of UBC Maurice Mugisha, shared that some of his staff tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the statement that has now been released, UBC has 10 COVID-19 cases from 160 results out of 322 samples that were taken on 21st August from the Kampala office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UBC will continue to operate with a high level of commitment towards the guidelines that the Ministry of Health has provided to curb the spread of the virus amongst the staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UBC is now the sixth media house to confirm COVID-19 cases at their premises after NBS, NTV, BBS, Vision group and Radio Pacis in Arua confirmed cases at their offices as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda currently has 2,426 confirmed cases, 1,267 recoveries and 25 COVID-19 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10-cases.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10-cases.jpg 736w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10-cases-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10-cases-360x501.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although it was rumored that another lockdown would be coming up, the Minister of Health yesterday disputed all those rumors and said that together with the National COVID-19 task force is working to come up with other measures of handling the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the Managing Director of UBC Maurice Mugisha, shared that some of his staff tested positive for COVID-19. According to the statement that has now been released, UBC has 10 COVID-19 cases from 160 results out of 322 samples that were taken on 21st August from the Kampala office. UBC will continue to operate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25144,"featured_media":17703,"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],"tags":[665,31,1614],"class_list":["post-17704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid19ug","tag-featured","tag-ubc-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704","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=17704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17713,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions\/17713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}