{"id":110424,"date":"2025-02-14T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/migori-county-govt-bans-food-at-funerals-after-death-due-to-cholera\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:04:23","slug":"migori-county-govt-bans-food-at-funerals-after-death-due-to-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/migori-county-govt-bans-food-at-funerals-after-death-due-to-cholera\/","title":{"rendered":"Migori County Govt bans food at funerals after death due to cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISUMU, Kenya, Feb 14 \u2013 Migori County Government has banned eating in funerals after one person succumbed to the cholera outbreak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Health County Executive Committee member Caleb Opondi confirmed the disease outbreak as five people remain hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>Opondi says a 20 year old person died due to cholera on Wednesday this week.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, he says occurred in Kuria East sub county.<\/p>\n<p>Already, the healthcare surveillance team has been dispatched into the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSerious contact tracing is ongoing even in the neighbouring sub counties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Opondi says the ban on funeral eating takes immediate effect in the affected sub county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe measures will be reviewed and can be extended beyond the said sub county if the situation escalates,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISUMU, Kenya, Feb 14 \u2013 Migori County Government has banned eating in funerals after one person succumbed to the cholera outbreak. Health County Executive Committee member Caleb Opondi confirmed the disease outbreak as five people remain hospitalized. Opondi says a 20 year old person died due to cholera on Wednesday this week. The incident, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}