{"id":3818,"date":"2022-06-27T16:46:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news25.org\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2022-06-27T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:46:06","slug":"new-somali-president-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/new-somali-president-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"New Somali president tests positive for COVID-19."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and was in self-isolation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy fellow citizens, I would like to inform you that today I tested positive for COVID-19. So far, I have no symptoms but I will continue to self-isolate and serve the people of #Somalia from home,\u201d he said on Friday on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohamud&#8217;s spokesperson, Abdikarim Ali Kaar, said the president had returned to Somalia on Friday from a trip to the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/news25.org\/kenya-and-somalia-in-fresh-diplomatic-row\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3518\">Kenya and Somalia in fresh diplomatic row.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/news25.org\/the-us-will-begin-distributing-covid-vaccines-to-young-children-next-week\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3747\">The US will begin distributing COVID vaccines to young children next week.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The official Somali president\u2019s Twitter account shows a video of him meeting the president of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, with both men wearing masks, dated June 22. He also met Somalis based in the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somalia has so far registered 26,748 COVID-19 cases and 1,361 deaths, according to a tally from its health ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohamud\u00a0took office in May\u00a0after winning the presidential vote for the second time, having\u00a0previously served\u00a0from 2012 to 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and was in self-isolation. \u201cMy fellow citizens, I would like to inform you that today I tested positive for COVID-19. So far, I have no symptoms but I will continue to self-isolate and serve the people of #Somalia from home,\u201d he said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,62,49],"tags":[113,53,1572],"class_list":{"0":"post-3818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"category-coronavirus","9":"category-health","10":"tag-africa","11":"tag-covid-19","12":"tag-somalia"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Somali president tests positive for COVID-19. - News 25<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/new-somali-president-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Somali president tests positive for COVID-19. - News 25\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and was in self-isolation. \u201cMy fellow citizens, I would like to inform you that today I tested positive for COVID-19. 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