{"id":199506,"date":"2020-03-07T06:42:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T05:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=199506"},"modified":"2020-03-07T06:43:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T05:43:02","slug":"just-in-togo-confirms-first-coronavirus-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=199506","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Togo Confirms First Coronavirus Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/03\/JUST-IN-Togo-Confirms-First-Coronavirus-Case.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Togo on Friday confirmed its first case of Coronavirus after a 42-year-old woman tested positive following her return from a trip to Benin, Germany, France and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The presidency in the West African nation of eight million people said the patient, who lives in the capital, Lome, with her family, was \u201ccurrently isolated in a treatment centre for infectious diseases\u201d after testing positive on Thursday, according to the AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom February 22 to March 2, 2020 she visited Benin, Germany, France and Turkey before returning to Togo via the land border with Benin,\u201d the presidency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It said all people, who had contact with the patient in the country \u201chave been identified and put in quarantine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal has registered four cases, all foreign nationals, and South Africa, Nigeria and Cameroon have one case each since the outbreak emerged in December in China.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Togo on Friday confirmed its first case of Coronavirus after a 42-year-old woman tested positive following her return from a trip to Benin, Germany, France and Turkey. The presidency in the West African nation of eight million people said the patient, who lives in the capital, Lome, with her family, was \u201ccurrently isolated in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[3],"tags":[14052,8227],"class_list":["post-199506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-corona-virus","tag-togo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199506","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=199506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}