{"id":207683,"date":"2020-04-06T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=207683"},"modified":"2020-04-06T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:26:18","slug":"covid-19-two-cases-of-coronavirus-confirmed-in-kwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=207683","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Two cases of Coronavirus confirmed in Kwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 on Monday, confirmed two cases of Coronavirus in the state.<br \/>\nThe cases included wife of the UITH patient, a UK returnee, who died last Thursday.<br \/>\nThe second case is also a UK returnee.<br \/>\nThe committee disclosed this in a statement signed by Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor\/Spokesman of the Technical Committee on COVID-19.<br \/>\nThe results were confirmed after the government received official confirmation of test results from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Test Centre in Ibadan.<br \/>\nThe governor is expected to address residents of the state in a press briefing on Tuesday at 11am to give further further measures to tackle the virus in the state.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed ten new cases of COVID-19 on Monday .<br \/>\nThe centre in a tweet said, \u201cTen new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria: 6 in Lagos, 2 in FCT and 2 in Edo.\u201d<br \/>\nDAILY POST recalls that UITH Chairman of Medical Advisory Committee Dr A. O. Saka said that the deceased, a 57-year-old man was labeled suspected \u2018coronavirus case\u2019.<br \/>\nThe hospital said the patient was admitted and managed as a case of \u2018food poisoning\u2019 but after his death on April 2nd, it received calls notifying it that the deceased was a returnee from the  UK<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 on Monday, confirmed two cases of Coronavirus in the state. The cases included wife of the UITH patient, a UK returnee, who died last Thursday. The second case is also a UK returnee. The committee disclosed this in a statement signed by Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207684,"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":[2658,14173,1890,1893],"class_list":["post-207683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-ilorin","tag-kwara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207683","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=207683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}