{"id":2560,"date":"2021-04-14T06:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:22","slug":"covid-19-onset-of-second-wave-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/04\/14\/covid-19-onset-of-second-wave-feared\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID 19: Onset of Second Wave Feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Leilah Bbaale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2409 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cov-3-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cov-3-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/cov-3.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Uganda is beginning to experience signs of the second wave of Covid-19, an indicator that could spell doom if the population does not heed the set guidelines meant to combat the spread of the deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Monica Musenero, a senior epidemiologist and the presidential advisor on epidemics, some of the indicators of the second wave include growing cases of COVID-19 infections, as well as change in weather patterns.<\/p>\n<p>The health ministry had for a long time, since the beginning of the year registered zero to tens of Covid-19 cases in the daily update.<\/p>\n<p>But, the clusters of community infections being registered as of Tuesday had particularly been in homesteads and now schools.<\/p>\n<p>Musenero has also highlighted the current partial lockdown in neighbouring Kenya as another indicator of Uganda\u2019s second wave, given the close relations between both countries.<\/p>\n<p>Musenero says Uganda\u2019s case count could double or in the worst case scenario, triple its current Covid-19 case count, given the laxity experienced among the population.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 41,204 people have tested positive in Uganda so far. Of these, 40,779 have recovered while 337 have died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale Uganda is beginning to experience signs of the second wave of Covid-19, an indicator that could spell doom if the population does not heed the set guidelines meant to combat the spread of the deadly disease. According to Dr. Monica Musenero, a senior epidemiologist and the presidential advisor on epidemics, some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","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=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}