{"id":2266,"date":"2021-02-08T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T07:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:25","slug":"covid-19-still-in-uganda-moh-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/02\/08\/covid-19-still-in-uganda-moh-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Still in Uganda, MOH Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Leilah Bbaale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2270 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cov-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cov-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cov.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The ministry of health is set to carry out a countrywide scientific study called a \u00a0Sero-Survey to ascertain the intensity and prevalence of Covid 19.<\/p>\n<p>This comes at a time for the past days, the country has registered a drastic reduction in the number of positive cases as opposed to earlier anticipation that the numbers would multiply due to the election period.<\/p>\n<p>This has made many assume that the country has successfully managed to combat the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>However the ministry\u2019s spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyona warns that covid 19 is still around asking Ugandans not to get complacent.<\/p>\n<p>He says it is still too early to speculate about the status of the pandemic adding that its only the survey results that will guide on the true picture.<\/p>\n<p>A Serosurvey is a collection and testing of serum (or proxy such as oral fluid) specimens from a sample of a defined population over a specified period of time to estimate the prevalence of antibodies against a given specific infectious pathogen as an indicator of immunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale The ministry of health is set to carry out a countrywide scientific study called a \u00a0Sero-Survey to ascertain the intensity and prevalence of Covid 19. This comes at a time for the past days, the country has registered a drastic reduction in the number of positive cases as opposed to earlier anticipation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}