Juvenile suspect, who has been detained at Kawempe Police Station has tested positive to COVID-19, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, the suspect who is a male Juvenile, 15, a resident of Bwaise village was arrested on allegations of defilement of a three (03) year old girl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onyango noted the investigations into the alleged defilement were concluded and the suspect was produced at Nabweru court and remanded to juvenile remand home at Naguru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe was taken there, but the officials at the remand home demanded for COVID-19 negative certificate before he could be admitted. Police took him for tests and the results came back when he is positive,\u201d Onyango said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onyango said the child is yet to be transferred to Entebbe Grade B Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMinistry of Health has taken samples of all the staff, family members and all the suspects in custody for testing. We are waiting for the results,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onyango said the Ministry of Health has also started tracing for contacts of the victim adding that today the Station and barracks will be disinfected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt the moment, we are not registering new cases at the station but attending to emergencies only,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onyango appealed to members of the public who want Police services or have cases to register to go to the nearest Police Station within their localities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Juvenile suspect, who has been detained at Kawempe Police Station has tested positive to COVID-19, police said on Wednesday. According to Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, the suspect who is a male Juvenile, 15, a resident of Bwaise village was arrested on allegations of defilement of a three (03) year old girl. Onyango noted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":18275,"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":[633,31,2051],"class_list":["post-18274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-kawempe-police-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274","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\/2270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18276,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions\/18276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}