{"id":203571,"date":"2020-03-22T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=203571"},"modified":"2020-03-22T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T14:37:25","slug":"coronavirus-nasarawa-suspected-cases-test-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=203571","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Nasarawa suspected cases test negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nasarawa Government on Saturday confirmed that all the five suspected cases of COVID-19 being isolated at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Keffi, tested negative for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that a family of five with symptoms suspected to be Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nasarawa State were isolated at FMC<\/p>\n<p>The State Commissioner for Health, Ahmed Yahaya, who made the disclosure at a press briefing on Saturday, said the results from specimen taken from the five suspected cases for test at the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Abuja, all came back negative.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, five persons were still undergoing some clinical processes and would soon be discharged from the isolation centre.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the government has put machinery in place to curtail any case of COVID-19 in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe isolation centre in DASH has been expanded to 18 rooms; nine each for suspected cases and confirmed cases if any,\u201d the Commissioner added.<\/p>\n<p>He urged members of the public not to panic as the government was prepared to tackle all infectious diseases, including COVID-19.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nasarawa Government on Saturday confirmed that all the five suspected cases of COVID-19 being isolated at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Keffi, tested negative for the virus. Recall that a family of five with symptoms suspected to be Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nasarawa State were isolated at FMC The State Commissioner for Health, Ahmed Yahaya, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203572,"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":[2658,14052],"class_list":["post-203571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-a","tag-corona-virus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203571","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=203571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}