{"id":208992,"date":"2020-04-11T10:36:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T09:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=208992"},"modified":"2020-04-11T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T09:42:09","slug":"covid-19-coronavirus-now-in-18-states-as-nigeria-crosses-300-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=208992","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Coronavirus now in 18 states as Nigeria crosses 300 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>At least 18 states in Nigeria now have a COVID-19 case recorded.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the latest update from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 17 new cases were confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown shows that eight are in Lagos, three in Katsina, two in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and one each in Niger, Kaduna, Anambra and Ondo.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time Niger and Anambra would be included in the statistics.<\/p>\n<p>In total, there are 305 confirmed cases. 58 patients have been discharged, while seven are dead.<\/p>\n<p>Lagos still has the highest number of cases with 163. FCT is next with 56; Osun (20), Edo (12) and Oyo (11).<\/p>\n<p>Bauchi has six cases, Akwa Ibom (five), Katsina (four), Ogun (seven), Kaduna (six), while Enugu, Ekiti, Rivers, Kwara and Delta have two cases each.<\/p>\n<p>Benue, Niger and Anambra have one case each.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 states in Nigeria now have a COVID-19 case recorded. This follows the latest update from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday. A total of 17 new cases were confirmed. A breakdown shows that eight are in Lagos, three in Katsina, two in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208993,"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":[3773,14571,3],"tags":[13309,14173,14538,4866,243,239],"class_list":["post-208992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-health","category-news","tag-13309","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid19","tag-crime","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208992","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=208992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}