{"id":22058,"date":"2021-03-02T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22058"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:37:40","slug":"3-south-sudan-generals-succumb-to-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/3-south-sudan-generals-succumb-to-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"3 South Sudan Generals Succumb To COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The South Sudanese military has announced the death of three generals who died after becoming ill with Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It identified the three as David Manyot Barach, Elijah Alier Ayom and Mabior Maket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burials would be organised by a committee in collaboration with the families of the deceased, the military said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief of Defence Forces Gen Johnson Juma Okot has urged all soldiers to adhere to Covid-19 safety measures, according to the military spokesman Brig Gen Santo Domic Chol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last two weeks, two prominent scholars at the University of Juba have also died after contracting coronavirus &#8211; bringing the number of deaths from the pandemic to 95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total, 8,144 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the world&#8217;s newest nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) say South Sudan is witnessing a surge in cases because of poor adherence to safety measures like social distancing and the wearing of face masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Sudanese military has announced the death of three generals who died after becoming ill with Covid-19. It identified the three as David Manyot Barach, Elijah Alier Ayom and Mabior Maket. Burials would be organised by a committee in collaboration with the families of the deceased, the military said. Chief of Defence Forces Gen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14897,"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":[31],"class_list":["post-22058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058","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=22058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22059,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions\/22059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}