{"id":6120,"date":"2020-08-25T22:59:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T22:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:07:33","slug":"somalia-un-concerns-about-lack-of-corona-virus-testing-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/08\/25\/somalia-un-concerns-about-lack-of-corona-virus-testing-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: UN concerns about lack of Corona virus testing capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> The United Nations (UN) and its partners have raised concerns about gaps in geographic coverage of testing of COVID-19 cases in Somalia amid daily declines in the number of confirmed cases in August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest COVID-19 Update released on Monday that despite the progress which has been made by the government, there are some districts with no confirmed cases due to lack of testing capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In Jubaland (southern region), partners report lack of enough ventilators and oxygen machines, lack of a regional laboratory as well as inadequate funding to support Ceel Waaq and Dhobley isolation centers,&#8221; said the UN humanitarian agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said around 200 out of 838 schools need support to implement protocols and measures to mitigate the pandemic risk in Somaliland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to OCHA, in Puntland State of northern Somalia, partners are concerned that the public has largely relaxed adherence to COVID-19 protocols and safety measures, despite cases reaching 400 in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-08\/25\/c_139317015.htm\" 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; The United Nations (UN) and its partners have raised concerns about gaps in geographic coverage of testing of COVID-19 cases in Somalia amid daily declines in the number of confirmed cases in August. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest COVID-19 Update released on Monday that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6120","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\/6120","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=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6123,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions\/6123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}