{"id":213637,"date":"2020-04-26T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T10:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213637"},"modified":"2020-04-26T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T13:37:27","slug":"gov-makinde-confirms-three-new-cases-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213637","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Makinde confirms three new cases of Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Oyo State Government has confirmed three new cases of COVID-19 in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Seyi Makinde on Saturday stated that there are nine active cases in the State, and that so far, 610 samples have been collected.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted, \u201cthe COVID-19 confirmation test for three suspected cases from the University College Hospital, Ibadan, came back POSITIVE, today. So, there are currently nine active cases in Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total of 610 samples have been collected so far in Oyo State. 453 of these samples were collected at the COVID-19 drive-through\/walk-through testing centre at Adamasingba Stadium. Testing is still ongoing at the centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the following categories of people who have not already done so, to call the Emergency Operations Centre on 08095394000 \/ 08095863000 \/ 08078288999 \/ 08078288800, for the ongoing drive-through\/walk-through testing at Adamasingba Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201ca) People who believe they could have come into contact with a COVID-19 case in Oyo State. b) People who returned to Nigeria from abroad within the last one month and their contacts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease, keep following the directives of the Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force. Wash your hands with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, regularly. Also, continue to maintain social distancing. Gatherings in Oyo State are limited to a maximum of ten persons.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oyo State Government has confirmed three new cases of COVID-19 in the state. Governor Seyi Makinde on Saturday stated that there are nine active cases in the State, and that so far, 610 samples have been collected. He tweeted, \u201cthe COVID-19 confirmation test for three suspected cases from the University College Hospital, Ibadan, came back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213638,"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":[14173,1165,8871],"class_list":["post-213637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-oyo","tag-seyi-makinde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213637","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=213637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}