{"id":10385,"date":"2022-06-24T22:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T22:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2022-06-26T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:04:37","slug":"somalias-new-president-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/06\/24\/somalias-new-president-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia&#8217;s new president tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Somalia&#8217;a new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Friday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was in self-isolation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abdikarim Ali Kaar, Mohamud&#8217;s spokesperson, said the president had returned to Somalia on Friday from a trip to the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official Somali president&#8217;s Twitter account shows a video of him meeting the president of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, with both men wearing masks, dated June 22. He also met Somalis based in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;My fellow citizens, I would like to inform you that today I tested positive for COVID-19. So far, I have no symptoms but I will continue to self-isolate and serve the people of #Somalia from home,&#8221; he said on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia has so far registered 26,748 COVID-19 cases and 1,361 deaths, according to a tally from its health ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mohamud took office in May after winning the presidential vote for the second time, having previously served from 2012 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Reuters\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/somali-president-tests-positive-covid-19-2022-06-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Somalia&#8217;a new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Friday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was in self-isolation. Abdikarim Ali Kaar, Mohamud&#8217;s spokesperson, said the president had returned to Somalia on Friday from a trip to the United Arab Emirates. The official Somali president&#8217;s Twitter account shows a video of him meeting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10423,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions\/10423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}