{"id":205323,"date":"2020-03-28T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205323"},"modified":"2020-03-28T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T14:10:51","slug":"covid-19-coronavirus-hits-46-countries-in-africa-kills-109-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205323","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Coronavirus hits 46 countries in Africa, kills 109 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014Daily Post<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The World Health Organisation, WHO, Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, has disclosed that there are now 3,778 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 46 countries across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The health agency also said that the COVID-19 death cases in Africa have increased to 109.<\/p>\n<p>WHO said this in a tweet on its regional official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c3,778 confirmed #COVID19 cases across 46 countries on the African continent with a total of 109 deaths reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c#SouthAfrica currently has 1,170 cases, making it the country most affected by the virus on the continent,\u201d WHO said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the agency had earlier this week given an update on the coronavirus outbreak in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-774769 lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-Coronavirus-hits-46-countries-in-Africa-kills-109-people.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-=\"data-\"><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014Daily Post The World Health Organisation, WHO, Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, has disclosed that there are now 3,778 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 46 countries across Africa. The health agency also said that the COVID-19 death cases in Africa have increased to 109. WHO said this in a tweet on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205324,"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":[94,14173,128],"class_list":["post-205323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-africa","tag-coronavirus","tag-egypt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205323","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=205323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}