{"id":204063,"date":"2020-03-24T07:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T06:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=204063"},"modified":"2020-03-24T07:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T06:51:58","slug":"just-in-coronavirus-cases-rise-to-40-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=204063","title":{"rendered":"Just in: Coronavirus cases rise to 40 in Nigeria"},"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\/BREAKING-Coronavirus-Cases-Hit-40-In-Nigeria.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>The Nigerian Center for Disease Control has confirmed four new cases of Coronavirus in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced via the official Twitter account of the agency on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The four new cases takes the total cases in the country to 40. <\/p>\n<div class=\"block-story-object block-story-object-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-width=\"550\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Four new cases of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> have been confirmed in Nigeria. 3 are in Lagos State and 1 in FCT<\/p>\n<p>Two of these cases are returning travellers<\/p>\n<p>As at 11:00pm on the 23rd of March, there are 40 confirmed cases of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> in Nigeria. 2 have been discharged with 1 death recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cR94MO6xnC\">pic.twitter.com\/cR94MO6xnC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCDC (@NCDCgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCDCgov\/status\/1242210215208062976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Four new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Nigeria. Three are in Lagos State and one in FCT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two of these cases are returning travellers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As at 11:00pm on the 23rd of March, there are 40 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Two have been discharged with one death recorded,&#8221; the NCDC said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Center for Disease Control has confirmed four new cases of Coronavirus in the country. This was announced via the official Twitter account of the agency on Monday night. The four new cases takes the total cases in the country to 40. Four new cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed in Nigeria. 3 are [&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":[1],"tags":[375,14173,243,14051],"class_list":["post-204063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-nigeria","tag-wuhan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204063","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=204063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}