{"id":203627,"date":"2020-03-22T15:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T14:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=203627"},"modified":"2020-03-22T15:39:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T14:39:57","slug":"coronavirus-ghana-records-first-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=203627","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Ghana records first death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Ghana on Sunday confirmed its first coronavirus death.<br \/>\nGhana\u2019s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, in a live broadcast on Sunday said the patient is a 61-year-old Lebanese male trader.<br \/>\nHe was reportedly unwell and had fever and cough. He had also earlier tested positive for COVID-19.<br \/>\nHis case, which was the 11th confirmed infection in the country, was reported on Thursday, March 19.<br \/>\n\u201cUnfortunately one person who tested positive for the virus but had serious underlying health complications, passed away in the early hours of today,\u201d he said<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Nigeria on Sunday morning recorded 3 new cases bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 26.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana on Sunday confirmed its first coronavirus death. Ghana\u2019s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, in a live broadcast on Sunday said the patient is a 61-year-old Lebanese male trader. He was reportedly unwell and had fever and cough. He had also earlier tested positive for COVID-19. His case, which was the 11th confirmed infection in the country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203628,"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":[2658,14173,311],"class_list":["post-203627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-ghana"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203627","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=203627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}