{"id":49507,"date":"2021-08-02T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=49507"},"modified":"2021-08-02T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:03:03","slug":"covid-why-bars-places-of-worship-remain-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/covid-why-bars-places-of-worship-remain-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: Why bars, places of worship remain shut"},"content":{"rendered":"
By ESTHER OLUKA and\u00a0<\/strong>Anthony Wesaka<\/strong><\/section>\n
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Bars and places of worship are some of the fastest routes through which Covid-19 infections spread easily and that is why they will remain closed after easing of the lockdown.<\/p>\n

The remarks were made by Dr Chris Baryomunsi, the ICT and National Guidance minister, last Saturday at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala where he was expounding on President Museveni\u2019s Covid-19 address that was televised last Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone sent me a message saying they saw me (during the presidential address on television) sitting next to the President and mentioned I am among the people misleading the President and that is why he didn\u2019t open churches and other places of prayer,\u201d Dr Baryomunsi stated.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/covid-why-bars-places-of-worship-remain-shut-3495728<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By ESTHER OLUKA and\u00a0Anthony Wesaka   Bars and places of worship are some of the fastest routes through which Covid-19 infections spread easily and that is why they will remain closed after easing of the lockdown. The remarks were made by Dr Chris Baryomunsi, the ICT and National Guidance minister, last Saturday at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala where he was expounding on President Museveni\u2019s Covid-19 address that was televised last Friday. \u201cSomeone sent me a message saying they saw me (during the presidential address on television) sitting next to the President and mentioned I am among the people misleading the President and that is why he didn\u2019t open churches and other places of prayer,\u201d Dr Baryomunsi stated. Read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49508,"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-49507","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\/49507"}],"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=49507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}