{"id":23119,"date":"2021-04-15T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T12:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=23119"},"modified":"2021-04-15T15:39:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T12:39:26","slug":"madagascar-postpones-schools-reopening-over-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/15\/madagascar-postpones-schools-reopening-over-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar Postpones Schools Reopening Over COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madagascar has postponed the reopening of schools previously planned for Monday next week, citing an increase in coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country&#8217;s cabinet said schools would remain closes until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some schools have been converted into Covid-19 treatment centres, Madagascar-Tribune has reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weekly markets in the capital, Antananarivo, have also been suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madagascar has so far reported 29,348 coronavirus cases including 520 deaths, according to data from John Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country had touted a herbal tonic &#8211; Covid Organics &#8211; as a cure for the virus despite the World Health Organization&#8217;s warning against using untested remedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Madagascar said it would register to join the Covax global vaccine initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madagascar has postponed the reopening of schools previously planned for Monday next week, citing an increase in coronavirus cases. The country&#8217;s cabinet said schools would remain closes until further notice. Some schools have been converted into Covid-19 treatment centres, Madagascar-Tribune has reported. Weekly markets in the capital, Antananarivo, have also been suspended. Madagascar has so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":23120,"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":[161],"tags":[764],"class_list":["post-23119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-madagascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23119","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=23119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23121,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23119\/revisions\/23121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}