{"id":26356,"date":"2021-09-13T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=26356"},"modified":"2021-09-13T16:39:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:39:31","slug":"dr-congo-president-finally-takes-covid-19-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/13\/dr-congo-president-finally-takes-covid-19-jab\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo President Finally Takes COVID 19 Jab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s President Felix Tshisekedi has had a Moderna Covid-19 vaccine months after turning down an AstraZeneca jab over fears that it wasn\u2019t safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DR Congo politicians have been reluctant to promote the use of vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only about 1% of the population has been vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July, President Tshisekedi said he did not want to take the AstraZeneca jab because of concerns about blood clots, but would take another one when it became available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that he had lost relatives to the disease, and vaccines were the best way forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DR Congo last week received its first batch of about 250,000 doses of Moderna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Official data says just over 1,000 people in DR Congo have died as a result of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country faces many health challenges including a meningitis outbreak that has killed at least 120 people since July.<br><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s President Felix Tshisekedi has had a Moderna Covid-19 vaccine months after turning down an AstraZeneca jab over fears that it wasn\u2019t safe. DR Congo politicians have been reluctant to promote the use of vaccines. Only about 1% of the population has been vaccinated. In July, President Tshisekedi said he did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":26358,"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":[6886],"class_list":["post-26356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-felix-tshisekedi-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356","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=26356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26359,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356\/revisions\/26359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}