{"id":213315,"date":"2020-04-25T08:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213315"},"modified":"2020-04-25T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T07:07:00","slug":"coronavirus-fg-warns-returning-nigerians-about-self-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213315","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: FG warns returning Nigerians about self-isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Federal Government has said it will not allow Nigerians who return from abroad to self-isolate.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, stated this at the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily briefing on Friday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not accept the request to self-isolate because it will be difficult to monitor them. That is our position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Onyeama revealed that some Nigerians willing to come back home were asking for self-isolation in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>However, he made it clear that such requests could not be granted, as monitoring them would be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Onyeama also admitted that the limited bed spaces and isolation centres in the country might have informed their demand to self-isolate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that we do not have enough isolation centres and bed spaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe are looking for hotels in Lagos and I have spoken to the Governor of Lagos. If we can get some, that\u2019ll be fine,\u201d the Minister added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has said it will not allow Nigerians who return from abroad to self-isolate. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, stated this at the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily briefing on Friday in Abuja. \u201cWe will not accept the request to self-isolate because it will be difficult to monitor them. That is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213316,"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":[41,14173,13157],"class_list":["post-213315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-coronavirus","tag-geoffrey-onyeama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213315","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=213315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}