{"id":193317,"date":"2020-02-13T09:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T08:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193317"},"modified":"2020-02-13T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T08:09:13","slug":"coronavirus-more-than-14800-new-cases-reported-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193317","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: More than 14,800 new cases reported yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 14,800 new cases of the coronavirus have been reported in China’s Hubei province – the epicentre of the outbreak.<\/p>\n

Health officials in the country have been using a new method to identify cases of COVID-19, the disease which is caused by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

There had been optimism that the number of infections was beginning to slow down. On Tuesday, China had reported its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in two weeks.<\/p>\n

But the World Health Organisation had warned that the apparent slowdown in the spread of the coronavirus<\/strong> epidemic should be treated with “extreme caution”.<\/p>\n

A total of 48,206 cases of COVID-19 are now being treated in Hubei province alone, most of them in the city of Wuhan.<\/p>\n

According to the region’s health commission, 33,693 people are still being treated in hospital – and 5,647 of them are said to be critically ill.<\/p>\n

More than 158,000 people who came into close contact with COVID-19 patients are being tracked in Hubei, and 77,308 people are under medical observation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 14,800 new cases of the coronavirus have been reported in China’s Hubei province – the epicentre of the outbreak. Health officials in the country have been using a new method to identify cases of COVID-19, the disease which is caused by the coronavirus. There had been optimism that the number of infections was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[375,14052],"class_list":["post-193317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-china","tag-corona-virus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}