{"id":7555,"date":"2021-03-03T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7555"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:14:57","slug":"somalia-imposes-strict-measures-to-curb-spread-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/03\/03\/somalia-imposes-strict-measures-to-curb-spread-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogadishu imposes strict measures to curb spread of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212; <\/strong>Somalia on Wednesday imposed strict measures to stem the second wave of COVID-19 in the country, banning large public gatherings for 30 days and closing schools and universities, government offices, and sports arenas for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People must wear masks and observe a two-meter distance and other health guidelines when attending permitted gatherings, information minister Osman Dubbe said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of COVID-19 cases has been rising in the past two months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, Dubbe said on national television that all passengers arriving in the country will be required to have negative results from valid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) COVID-19 tests done within 72 hours and will have to undergo a mandatory seven-day quarantine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All local flights and interstate movements of people are also suspended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Staff must work from home unless they provide essential services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new measures came after Minister of Health and Human Services Fawziya Abikar Nur warned that the COVID-19 situation in Somalia is dire and called on citizens to adhere to health measures to curb the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of Monday, the Horn of Africa nation had reported 7,392 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 243 deaths and 3,814 recoveries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-03\/03\/c_139780631.htm#:~:text=MOGADISHU%2C%20March%203%20(Xinhua),sports%20arenas%20for%20two%20weeks.\" 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 on Wednesday imposed strict measures to stem the second wave of COVID-19 in the country, banning large public gatherings for 30 days and closing schools and universities, government offices, and sports arenas for two weeks. People must wear masks and observe a two-meter distance and other health guidelines when attending permitted gatherings, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7555","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\/7555","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=7555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7569,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions\/7569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}