{"id":24130,"date":"2021-05-27T17:12:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24130"},"modified":"2021-05-27T17:12:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:12:35","slug":"kyambogo-university-students-go-on-strike-as-admin-suspends-lessons-over-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/kyambogo-university-students-go-on-strike-as-admin-suspends-lessons-over-covid-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyambogo University Students Go On Strike As Admin Suspends Lessons Over COVID Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda&#8217;s Kyambogo University on Thursday morning went on strike in response to the administration&#8217;s decision to suspend in-person learning after eight coronavirus cases were confirmed at the institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice Chancellor Prof Elly Katunguka said on Thursday that many other students were showing symptoms of Covid-19 but had refused to get tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authorities in Uganda have reported an overall surge in coronavirus infections over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A government taskforce on the pandemic was scheduled to meet on Thursday to analyse the numbers and may issue more guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The health ministry has announced the beginning of a second wave, with the confirmed cases now at 44,281 and more than 500,000 people vaccinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s Kyambogo University on Thursday morning went on strike in response to the administration&#8217;s decision to suspend in-person learning after eight coronavirus cases were confirmed at the institution. Vice Chancellor Prof Elly Katunguka said on Thursday that many other students were showing symptoms of Covid-19 but had refused to get tested. The authorities in Uganda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24131,"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-24130","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\/24130","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=24130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24132,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24130\/revisions\/24132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}