{"id":4568,"date":"2020-04-04T18:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2020-04-04T18:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T18:33:23","slug":"somalia-confirms-two-more-covid-19-cases-making-the-total-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/04\/04\/somalia-confirms-two-more-covid-19-cases-making-the-total-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia confirms two more COVID-19 cases making the total 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Somali health ministry on Saturday confirmed two more cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number to seven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fawziya Abikar, health minister said the latest cases involved a foreign and a Somali national.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abikar said one of the patients is a foreign national working within the UN compound in Mogadishu while the other in a Somali national.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There are two new cases of coronavirus, one citizen and a foreigner, bringing the total number to seven,&#8221; Abikar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Horn of African nation has so far one recovery and has instituted measures to contain the possible spread of COVID-19 including closing schools, banning large gatherings and suspending international and domestic passenger flights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) last week said one of its commercial contractor has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN mission said on March 27 the contractor has been in quarantine for eight days prior to diagnosis and medical professionals are tracing contact with the individual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-04\/04\/c_138947428.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Somali health ministry on Saturday confirmed two more cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number to seven. Fawziya Abikar, health minister said the latest cases involved a foreign and a Somali national. Abikar said one of the patients is a foreign national working within the UN compound in Mogadishu while the other in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4568","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\/4568","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=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4576,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions\/4576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}