{"id":4816,"date":"2020-04-20T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2020-04-22T08:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T08:45:19","slug":"mogadishu-5-journalists-exposed-to-covid-19-after-visiting-infected-colleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/04\/20\/mogadishu-5-journalists-exposed-to-covid-19-after-visiting-infected-colleague\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogadishu .. Five Journalists exposed to COVID-19 after visiting infected colleague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0 A journalist in Mogadishu has been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mohamed Hassan who works for the national broadcaster Somalia National TV (SNTV), has been hospitalized at the De-martini health facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The journalist had shown symptoms that included difficulties in breathing and his condition worsened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, for six hours, he was not put on oxygen until after colleagues shared his story on social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And in a twist of fate, 7 friends visited him in the hospital without taking government set measures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far one of his friends said he has put himself in isolation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, stakeholders in the media industry have urged members to take precautions when on duty to avoid infection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chairman of the Somalia Independent Media Houses Association (SIMHA) Hassan Geesey urged journalists to wear protective devices such as masks and avoid quarantine areas as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Federation of Somalia Journalists Secretary-General Mohamed Moalimu said that journalists must at all times adhere to the strict guidelines offered by the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the upward curve in the number of infections continued with 29 new cases bringing the total number of COVID-19 to 164.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Radio Dalsan\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodalsan.com\/en\/2020\/04\/20\/5-journalists-exposed-to-corona-virus-after-visiting-infected-colleague\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 A journalist in Mogadishu has been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19. Mohamed Hassan who works for the national broadcaster Somalia National TV (SNTV), has been hospitalized at the De-martini health facility. The journalist had shown symptoms that included difficulties in breathing and his condition worsened. However, for six hours, he was not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","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\/4816","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=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4848,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/4848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}