{"id":61977,"date":"2020-02-14T10:53:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T02:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61977"},"modified":"2020-02-14T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:06:19","slug":"over-200-isolated-in-uganda-over-covid-19-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61977","title":{"rendered":"Over 200 isolated in Uganda over Covid-19 fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Over-200-isolated-in-Uganda-over-coronavirus-fears-864910?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/629\/62992821.295.jpg\" alt=\"An official screens travellers arriving at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>An official screens travellers arriving at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KAMPALA, Feb 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uganda has this week ordered more than 120 travellers from China to be isolated for two weeks over coronavirus fears.<br><br>A week ago, it ordered another 100 isolated, bringing the total to 220. The travellers consist of Chinese and Ugandans flying in from China.<br><br>Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the spokesperson at Uganda\u2019s Ministry of Health, said the travellers have not been quarantined but were asked to self-isolate for two weeks.<br><br>After the two weeks, they will be allowed to move freely if they do not exhibit symptoms similar to those of people infected by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.<br><br>\u201cWe have what they call a thermal scanner and the moment one arrives into immigration [section] it scans your temperature and if it is raised, you are monitored accordingly and sometimes isolated within your place of residence,\u201d he said.<br><br>Ainebyoona added that a surveillance team is monitoring the isolated people.<br><br>Uganda has set up a checkpoint at the Entebbe International Airport to screen passengers for symptoms of the coronavirus. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official screens travellers arriving at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda KAMPALA, Feb 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uganda has this week ordered more than 120 travellers from China to be isolated for two weeks over coronavirus fears. A week ago, it ordered another 100 isolated, bringing the total to 220. The travellers consist of Chinese and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}