{"id":22280,"date":"2021-03-11T22:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22280"},"modified":"2021-03-11T22:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:45:59","slug":"hospitalized-raila-odinga-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/hospitalized-raila-odinga-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitalized Raila Odinga Tests Positive For COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya&#8217;s ODM leader Raila Odinga has tested positive for COVID-19, a statement from his doctor revealed on Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consultant neurosurgeon David Oluoch-Olunya said he is responding well to treatment at the Nairobi Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFollowing my letter of the 10th of March 2021 we have confirmed that Rt. Hon. Odinga has SARS-2 COVID 19. We are continuing to monitor his progress,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ODM leader was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/citizentv.co.ke\/news\/raila-odinga-admitted-to-nairobi-hospital-family-says-7994687\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted to hospital on March 9<\/a>&nbsp;after he complained of general fatigue and body aches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, Mr. Odinga said in a statement that he received a briefing from doctors who had conducted numerous tests on him for the last two days to arrive at an accurate diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile the tests were several, one important result, which I have authorized the doctors to make public is that I have been found to have been exposed to Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CITIZEN TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s ODM leader Raila Odinga has tested positive for COVID-19, a statement from his doctor revealed on Thursday night. Consultant neurosurgeon David Oluoch-Olunya said he is responding well to treatment at the Nairobi Hospital. \u201cFollowing my letter of the 10th of March 2021 we have confirmed that Rt. Hon. Odinga has SARS-2 COVID 19. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22281,"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":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280","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=22280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22283,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions\/22283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}