{"id":205453,"date":"2020-03-29T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205453"},"modified":"2020-03-29T15:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:13:50","slug":"covid-19-nigeria-confirms-another-8-new-cases-of-coronavirus-as-figure-rises-to-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205453","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Nigeria confirms another 8 new cases of Coronavirus as figure rises to 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Eight new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the announcement on Saturday night in a post on its official Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>It said the new patients are in FCT, Kaduna, Osun and Oyo States.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria now has 97 confirmed cases of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria; 2 in FCT, 4 in Oyo, 1 in Kaduna and 1 in Osun State,\u201d NCDC tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs at 10:40 pm 28th March there are 97 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria with 1 death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NCDC had earlier on Saturday provided an update on COVID-19 cases in Nigeria.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria. The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the announcement on Saturday night in a post on its official Twitter page. It said the new patients are in FCT, Kaduna, Osun and Oyo States. Nigeria now has 97 confirmed cases of the virus. \u201cEight new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205454,"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":[2658,14173,397],"class_list":["post-205453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-ncdc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205453","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=205453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}