{"id":14352,"date":"2022-06-17T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/?p=14352"},"modified":"2022-07-02T15:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:04:23","slug":"kenya-experiencing-sixth-wave-of-covid-19-africa-cdc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/kenya-experiencing-sixth-wave-of-covid-19-africa-cdc-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa CDC says Kenya is experiencing the sixth wave of COVID-19."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiiraan.com\/images\/logo\/Bloomberg.jpg\" \/>Friday June 17, 2022<br \/>\nBy Katarina Hoije<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is experiencing a sixth wave of Covid-19 infections after the number of positive cases in the country increased on average by 92% in the past month, compared with the previous four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The East African nation becomes the second country in the region to see a sixth wave after Mauritius, Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a virtual briefing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia, Morocco and Cape Verde are going through a fifth wave of the pandemic, Ouma said. This brings to 16 the number of African countries that have suffered a fifth wave under the pandemic, according to Africa CDC data.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 39 countries, or 71% of all member states, are reporting a case fatality rate that is higher than the global average of 1.2%, with Somalia and Sudan reporting over 5% case fatality rate, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday June 17, 2022 By Katarina Hoije Kenya is experiencing a sixth wave of Covid-19 infections after the number of positive cases in the country increased on average by 92% in the past month, compared with the previous four weeks. The East African nation becomes the second country in the region to see a sixth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrika"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14640,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352\/revisions\/14640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}