{"id":8620,"date":"2020-05-28T19:51:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T19:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2020-05-28T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T19:53:29","slug":"uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya","title":{"rendered":"Uganda returns eleven positive truck drivers to Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"standard-content \">\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373008\/uganda-sends-back-11-drivers\"><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Ugandan authorities have returned 11 truck drivers who tested positive for coronavirus back to Kenya.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373008\/uganda-sends-back-11-drivers\">The drivers were taken to the Alupe Isolation Centre, where 11 other drivers are undergoing treatment.The Deputy Governor, Moses Mulomi, while giving a Covid-19 update in the county at a news conference yesterday, noted that medics at the Kenya Medical Research Institute located in Alupe conducted confirmatory tests and results will be relayed to the Ministry of Health.<\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373008\/uganda-sends-back-11-drivers\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373008\/uganda-sends-back-11-drivers\">Mr Mulomi warned that drivers who will leave their point of loading towards Busia and Malaba borders without a certificate confirming they were free from the virus will be put under mandatory quarantine.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373008\/uganda-sends-back-11-drivers\">\u201cIt was agreed that all truck drivers must be tested 48 hours before they start their journey. Those without a Covid-19 free certificate will be put in forced quarantine,\u201d said Mulomi.<\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373008\/uganda-sends-back-11-drivers\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373008\/uganda-sends-back-11-drivers\">County Commissioner Joseph Kanyiri confirmed that traffic in Malaba had been eased following a meeting between officials from Kenya and Uganda held in Malaba border on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373008\/uganda-sends-back-11-drivers\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001373008\/uganda-sends-back-11-drivers\">Mr Kanyiri, who is also the chairman of the County Security Committee, further confirmed the arrest of 10 truck drivers who had blocked the busy Malaba-Bungoma road to protest alleged harassment by Uganda officials.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Ugandan authorities have returned 11 truck drivers who tested positive for coronavirus back to Kenya. The drivers were taken to the Alupe Isolation Centre, where 11 other drivers are undergoing treatment.The Deputy Governor, Moses Mulomi, while giving a Covid-19 update in the county at a news conference yesterday, noted that medics at the Kenya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[3862,1539,2715,3861],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-alupe-isolation-centre","tag-covid-19","tag-truck-drivers","tag-ugandan-authorities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Uganda returns eleven positive truck drivers to Kenya - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ugandan authorities have returned 11 truck drivers who tested positive for coronavirus back to Kenya.The drivers were taken to the Alupe Isolation Centre\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Uganda returns eleven positive truck drivers to Kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ugandan authorities have returned 11 truck drivers who tested positive for coronavirus back to Kenya.The drivers were taken to the Alupe Isolation Centre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-28T19:51:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-28T19:53:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/uganda_sends_back_115ecebae0e22b3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"742\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"464\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Uganda returns eleven positive truck drivers to Kenya\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-28T19:51:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-28T19:53:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya\"},\"wordCount\":204,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/uganda_sends_back_115ecebae0e22b3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Alupe Isolation Centre\",\"COVID-19\",\"Truck drivers\",\"Ugandan authorities\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uganda-returns-eleven-positive-truck-drivers-to-kenya\",\"name\":\"Uganda returns eleven positive truck drivers to Kenya - 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