{"id":205308,"date":"2020-03-28T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205308"},"modified":"2020-03-28T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:52:38","slug":"coronavirus-enugu-govt-confirms-two-cases-releases-emergency-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205308","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Enugu govt confirms two cases, releases emergency lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Enugu Government on Saturday confirmed two cases of coronavirus in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation was made public by Dr. Ifeanyi Agujiobi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>A statement he signed disclosed that the two presented themselves for the test which came back positive.<\/p>\n<p>He said the duo voluntarily contacted the Enugu State Ministry of Health on arrival from United Kingdom (UK).<\/p>\n<p>Agujiobi noted that the patients were in isolation and that the Enugu State Multi sectoral Rapid Response Team has commenced contact tracing.<\/p>\n<p>The government thanked them for their sincerity, consideration for others and for obeying the directive that individuals who returned from overseas should report for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still wish to encourage all those that returned recently from overseas to contact the Enugu State Public Health Department through these dedicated lines \u2013 08182555550 or 09022333833\u201d, it read.<\/p>\n<p>The statement urged the public not to panic as Health Personnel were already positioned to respond to the present situation.<\/p>\n<p>It appealed to residents to observe a high level of personal hygiene, maintain the social distance protocol and stay at home if possible.<\/p>\n<p>The cases of the global pandemic in Nigeria is currently 81.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enugu Government on Saturday confirmed two cases of coronavirus in the state. The confirmation was made public by Dr. Ifeanyi Agujiobi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health. A statement he signed disclosed that the two presented themselves for the test which came back positive. He said the duo voluntarily contacted the Enugu State Ministry of Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205309,"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":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,14173,703],"class_list":["post-205308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-enugu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205308","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=205308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}