{"id":213073,"date":"2020-04-24T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213073"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:00:16","slug":"coronavirus-us-death-toll-rises-to-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213073","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: US death toll rises to 50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Coronavirus death toll in the United States reached 50,000 on Thursday evening as the number of confirmed cases rose to 890,027.<br \/>\nAccording to Daily Mail, an additional 2,416 deaths were confirmed, bringing the total to 50,442. Confirmed cases rose by 34,828, bringing the total cases across the nation to 891,622.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been reported that the U.S. has both the highest number of confirmed cases in the world and the highest death toll.<br \/>\nResearch done by the University of Washington\u2019s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed that the national death toll is expected to hit 65,976 by August.<br \/>\nRecall that US President, Donald Trump had announced that immigration to the US will be temporarily suspended to protect the jobs of Americans.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Nigeria Center for Disease and Control, NCDC, on Thursday confirmed 108 new cases of Coronavirus in the country.<br \/>\n\u201cAs at 11:30pm 23rd April there are 981 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria, 197 have been discharged, with 31 deaths,\u201d it said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coronavirus death toll in the United States reached 50,000 on Thursday evening as the number of confirmed cases rose to 890,027. According to Daily Mail, an additional 2,416 deaths were confirmed, bringing the total to 50,442. Confirmed cases rose by 34,828, bringing the total cases across the nation to 891,622. It\u2019s been reported that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213074,"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":[3],"tags":[2658,14173,14538,4866,1936,6094,14410,14727,3607],"class_list":["post-213073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid19","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-health","tag-killer-disease","tag-united-state-of-america","tag-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213073","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=213073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}