{"id":22355,"date":"2021-03-15T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22355"},"modified":"2021-03-15T14:47:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:47:50","slug":"somalia-receives-first-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/somalia-receives-first-doses-of-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Receives First Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somalia has received 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine under\u00a0the Covax scheme, the first batch the country has received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People at highest risk of contracting the virus will be the first to receive vaccines &#8211; including frontline workers, the elderly and those with chronic health conditions &#8211; the heath ministry says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country eventually expects to receive a total of 1.2 million doses to vaccinate at least 20% of its population from the Covax facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vaccine arrives at a time when the country is experiencing a new wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somalia has reported 9,190 cases of coronavirus infections and 367 deaths,\u00a0according to the latest tally by Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia has received 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine under\u00a0the Covax scheme, the first batch the country has received. People at highest risk of contracting the virus will be the first to receive vaccines &#8211; including frontline workers, the elderly and those with chronic health conditions &#8211; the heath ministry says. The country eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22356,"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":[98,161],"tags":[6211,809],"class_list":["post-22355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-oxford-astrazeneca","tag-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355","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=22355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22357,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355\/revisions\/22357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}