{"id":3032,"date":"2021-07-02T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:17","slug":"covid-19-kikuube-district-bans-cooking-and-serving-food-at-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/07\/02\/covid-19-kikuube-district-bans-cooking-and-serving-food-at-funerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Kikuube district bans cooking and serving food at funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3034 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Amlan-Tumusiime-the-Kikuube-resident-district-commissioner-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/>By Tugume Johnbosco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kikuube<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kikuube district COVID-19 task force on Thursday banned with immediate effect cooking food at funerals whether the deceased have succumbed to Covid-19 or natural death.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the district registered 11 Covid-19 cumulative deaths in a period of three weeks in this second wave of the pandemic. In the first wave Kikuube district recorded only one death.<\/p>\n<p>Amlan Tumusiime, the Resident District Commissioner Kikuube who also doubles as the chairperson of the Covid-19 task force said that it has come to their notice that some people still cook food for the mourners, a practice that leads to many people to gather in defiance of the standard operating procedures (SOPs) in the fight against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Kikuube district has registered 316 cumulative Covid-19 cases and currently 21 people are under treatment at Kasonga Covid-19 treatment Unit.<\/p>\n<p>The number of recoveries is 212 people both at the Covid-19 treatment unit for Kikuube district at Kasonga and those under Home-based care have been discharged<\/p>\n<p>Kikuube district chairman Peter Banura assured the health workers that the government had released some support to respond to emergencies in the Covid-19 fight and the issues affecting the health workers shall be prioritized.<\/p>\n<p>Banura appealed to the development partners operating in Kikuube district to support the district with fuel and other logistical requirements to manage the situation.<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tugume Johnbosco Kikuube Kikuube district COVID-19 task force on Thursday banned with immediate effect cooking food at funerals whether the deceased have succumbed to Covid-19 or natural death. This comes after the district registered 11 Covid-19 cumulative deaths in a period of three weeks in this second wave of the pandemic. In the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro-health","8":"category-health","9":"category-national","10":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","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=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}