{"id":17929,"date":"2020-09-01T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=17929"},"modified":"2020-09-01T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:54:31","slug":"kitgum-prison-closed-as-more-inmates-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/01\/kitgum-prison-closed-as-more-inmates-test-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitgum Prison Closed As More Inmates Test Positive For COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kitgum prison has been closed after 6inmates tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was revealed by the Prisons police spokesperson Frank Baine in a weekly press briefing at Uganda Media Centre on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter some sample taking, results came that we had some six cases in Kitgum prison,\u201d said Baine before adding that;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith effect from today, we are opening Padel. 138 prisoners were in Kitgum and 6 were positive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth noting that in Amuru prison, Amuru district, they also recorded 3 cases and they are among the contacts of the previous cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe found out that some other 3 cases emerged plus 1 case of a staff child.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should be remembered that a few weeks ago, Uganda Prisons registered 153 cases of COVID-19 in Amuru prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitgum prison has been closed after 6inmates tested positive for COVID-19. This was revealed by the Prisons police spokesperson Frank Baine in a weekly press briefing at Uganda Media Centre on Monday. \u201cAfter some sample taking, results came that we had some six cases in Kitgum prison,\u201d said Baine before adding that; \u201cWith effect from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":17930,"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":[633,31,1802],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-kitgum-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","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=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17931,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions\/17931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}