{"id":49448,"date":"2021-07-29T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T12:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=49448"},"modified":"2021-07-29T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T12:05:55","slug":"covid-the-good-bad-of-second-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/covid-the-good-bad-of-second-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: The good, bad of second lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
By ESTHER OLUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n
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The 42-day nationwide lockdown announced by President Museveni on June 18 to curb the spread of Covid-19 after the country was hit by the second wave comes to an end today.
\nWith the lockdown, people \u00a0were ordered to stay home, \u00a0private and public transport were temporarily suspended, while education institutions, \u00a0places of worship and business centres were closed.<\/p>\n

The last 42 days have been filled with the good and bad, twists and turns and drama as well.
\nOn Saturday June 19, traders ignored the directive of staying home and opened their shops while others went to the streets to sell their merchandise.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/covid-the-good-bad-of-second-lockdown-3490858<\/a>https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/covid-the-good-bad-of-second-lockdown-3490858<\/p>\n

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By ESTHER OLUKA More by this Author   The 42-day nationwide lockdown announced by President Museveni on June 18 to curb the spread of Covid-19 after the country was hit by the second wave comes to an end today. With the lockdown, people \u00a0were ordered to stay home, \u00a0private and public transport were temporarily suspended, while education institutions, \u00a0places of worship and business centres were closed. The last 42 days have been filled with the good and bad, twists and turns and drama as well. On Saturday June 19, traders ignored the directive of staying home and opened their shops while others went to the streets to sell their merchandise. Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/covid-the-good-bad-of-second-lockdown-3490858https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/covid-the-good-bad-of-second-lockdown-3490858  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}