{"id":2715,"date":"2021-06-16T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:20","slug":"masindi-cao-orders-for-compulsory-covid-19-testing-for-all-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/06\/16\/masindi-cao-orders-for-compulsory-covid-19-testing-for-all-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Masindi CAO Orders for Compulsory Covid-19 Testing for all Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By John Bosco Tugume<\/p>\n<p>16th June, 2021<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2437 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/LAHENjRx-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/LAHENjRx-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/LAHENjRx-2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/LAHENjRx-2.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Geoffrey Nkurunziza, the acting Chief Administrative Officer Masindi has said that staff members who have not tested for COVID-19 will not access Masindi district local government headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Nkurunziza explained that as senior management of Masindi district local government they decided that health workers do mandatory tests to all the district workers to enable them know their status.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, they want to know the health status of all staff and ensure those positive undergo Home Based Care as a way of curtailing the rapid spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Baguma, the Masindi District Health Officer says after testing, they are going to scale down on the number of staff who report for work to 30%.<\/p>\n<p>Masindi District has 104 cumulative cases of covid16, 16 being managed at home under the supervision of health workers, four under intensive care unit in Hoima and 2 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Bosco Tugume 16th June, 2021 Geoffrey Nkurunziza, the acting Chief Administrative Officer Masindi has said that staff members who have not tested for COVID-19 will not access Masindi district local government headquarters. Nkurunziza explained that as senior management of Masindi district local government they decided that health workers do mandatory tests to all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715","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=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}