{"id":46843,"date":"2022-10-17T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-institutes-lockdown-measures-in-ebola-affected-districts\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:19:14","slug":"uganda-institutes-lockdown-measures-in-ebola-affected-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-institutes-lockdown-measures-in-ebola-affected-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda institutes lockdown measures in Ebola-affected districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Museveni said in a national address telecast live that the lockdown will last 21 days.<\/p>\n<p>According to the measures, movement in and out of the two districts is prohibited. The two districts have also been placed under a night curfew with only cargo vehicles allowed to exit.<\/p>\n<p>Public gatherings have been prohibited including places of worship and entertainment centers.<\/p>\n<p>Schools will remain open but under strict supervision by district medical teams.<\/p>\n<p>Mubende was the epicenter of the Ebola virus disease outbreak after the index case was announced on Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The country currently has 58 confirmed cases of Ebola, with 19 deaths, and 20 people have recovered since the index case was reported, according to government data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{KAMPALA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) &#8212; Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday announced a decision to put the Ebola-affected central Ugandan districts of Mubende and Kassanda on lockdown with immediate effect.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46843"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46843"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}