{"id":7614,"date":"2020-10-28T13:21:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2020-10-28T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:24:27","slug":"bungoma-county-assembly-suspends-its-sittings-after-6-mcas-tested-positive-of-covid-19-speaker-hon-situma-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=7614","title":{"rendered":"Bungoma county assembly suspends its sittings after 6 MCA&#8217;s tested positive of covid 19: Speaker Hon Situma says."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bungoma County Assembly will remain closed for a further 14 days effective Wednesday October 28, 2020 after 6 MCAs and 7 staff members tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker Hon Emmanuel Situma, in a statement to the media houses, said that &nbsp;the Assembly was closed two weeks ago as a precautionary measure before mass testing was done on MCAs, staff and other service providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Situma advised the affected MCAs and staff members to self-isolate and follow the Ministry of Health guidelines with regard to management of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/images.jpg 318w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/images-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption> Hon Situma.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe wider County Assembly of Bungoma fraternity is equally urged to self-isolate in the interest of the wider public,\u201d read the Speaker\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe general public is advised to continue following all Ministry of health protocols towards combating the spread of COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/citizentv.co.ke\/news\/mombasa-county-assembly-closed-after-4-mcas-3-staffers-test-positive-for-covid-19-349169\/\">Mombasa County Assembly<\/a> on Tuesday suspended sittings for two weeks after four members and three staffers tested positive for COVID-19. Uasin Gishu county assembly too had suspended its sitting after Huruma Ward MCA Hon Chomba died of covid 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bungoma County Assembly will remain closed for a further 14 days effective Wednesday October 28, 2020 after 6 MCAs and 7 staff members tested positive for COVID-19. Speaker Hon Emmanuel Situma, in a statement to the media houses, said that &nbsp;the Assembly was closed two weeks ago as a precautionary measure before mass testing was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}