{"id":7565,"date":"2021-03-01T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2021-03-05T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:57:53","slug":"2nd-covid-19-wave-spreads-at-alarming-rate-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/03\/01\/2nd-covid-19-wave-spreads-at-alarming-rate-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd COVID-19 wave spreads at alarming rate in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU<\/strong> &#8212; The rate of new Coronavirus infection cases and deaths in Somalia is alarming, as the country continu-es to struggle with the second wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No official statement has issued whether this resurgence was fueled by a new of the variant virus which was termed as highly transmissible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This trend continues to be observed even after the government introduced new measures last month, including banning public meetings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the ministry of health, Somalia recorded eight deaths making the total death toll 239.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the last 24 hours, 266 new cases of the virus were recorded after the ministry tested 1,807 samples across the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the pandemic onset, Somalia has not imposed a lock-down or formally shut its borders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country\u2019s total number of COVID-19 cases now stands at 7,257 and recoveries at 3,808.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia is yet to begin inoculating its people but is set to receive 1.2 million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine this February, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <strong>Halbeeg News\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.halbeeg.com\/2021\/03\/01\/33562\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">View original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; The rate of new Coronavirus infection cases and deaths in Somalia is alarming, as the country continu-es to struggle with the second wave of the pandemic. No official statement has issued whether this resurgence was fueled by a new of the variant virus which was termed as highly transmissible. This trend continues to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7565","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\/7565","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=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7567,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions\/7567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}