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24,873 about 2500 new cases in 24 hours and Uganda is desperate

We remain safe in our home. I had a fever yesterday. For a while, I thought I might be getting "bad enough to test" for the Coronavirus. But I slept an hour and the fever broke. I still am weak but for the most part, feeling like I am getting better. I do not know if I had it. But I had something that made me feel weak and effected my lungs and left me breathless. We are isolated at home. I am already doing all the doctors would advise me to do. There is nothing more I can do. They only test the really sick people. And although I would love the peace of mind that comes from knowing we have had it, I am grateful I never got sick enough to find out. Yesterday I watched my church online. I also watched the service of King Circle assembly of God in Corvallis Oregon, and New Life Church in Renton Washington. KCAG is my home church, the one I grew up in. My family still goes there. And New Life is where Nicole is interning until this week. God willing she flies home on Thursday. Please pray she remains healthy enough to fly. I would hate to think about what will happen if she has a fever and they do not allow her on the flight. I am guessing they will check her temperature. Right now she is run down. She thinks its the stress. Please pray she is healthy enough to fly. I think all the people returning get a coronavirus test at the airport and are ordered to remain at home 14 days. They are flying out of Seattle. Half the flight could be sick. Juergen plans to go pick her up next Friday. Just in case he has to argue with the authorities to release her to quarantine at home. It will be a huge relief to have her here but so sad she can not stay. We know she was feeling like she was part of a team, and fully engaged in a cause. Now I am afraid home is going to be such a letdown. In Uganda, they have declared a national state of emergency. They have military troops on the streets. They closed the schools. They shut down all public transportation. They urge everyone to stay at home. All this seems fine on the outside. But there are 16 slums in Kampala. Millions of people live on less than 2 USD a day. They have no electricity. No freezers that are full of food. No stores of food. Nothing but firewood to boil water and cook with. And jobs that pay them enough each day to pay rent, and food. So if they stay at home, they are going to starve or die of thirst. And they will lose jobs they can not reach for lack of transportation. And they will be kicked out of shacks because they have no rent to pay. The government declares them to stay home and puts soldiers on the ground to force them to remain. But how can they survive without food and clean water? Please pray the UN will step in. It is one thing for us to send extra food money for our women in Kampala. And we will do all we can. But there are millions now at risk, not from coronavirus but from hunger and thirst. I emailed the US embassy and the UN in Uganda urging them to act. The situation is desperate. They blast announcements on loudspeakers telling the people to wash their hands and stay in their houses. But the people have no soap or clean water.

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