{"id":81735,"date":"2020-07-03T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=81735"},"modified":"2020-07-03T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:08:04","slug":"covid-19-botswana-president-goes-into-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=81735","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Botswana president goes into quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Botswana-president-goes-into-coronavirus-quarantine-996778?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/320\/32041748.295.jpg\" alt=\"Botswana President, Mokgweetsi Masisi\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Botswana President, Mokgweetsi Masisi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GABORONE, July 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has quarantined himself after an official working closely with him tested positive for Covid-19, a government statement says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some other people in the president&#8217;s inner circle are also self-isolating, it adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government encourages people to continue taking precautions in order to prevent the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country of 2.25 million people has so far recorded 227 cases of the virus and one death. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana President, Mokgweetsi Masisi GABORONE, July 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has quarantined himself after an official working closely with him tested positive for Covid-19, a government statement says. Some other people in the president&#8217;s inner circle are also self-isolating, it adds. The government encourages people to continue taking precautions in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":81739,"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\/81735"}],"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=81735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}