{"id":215344,"date":"2020-05-01T17:46:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=215344"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:47:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:47:44","slug":"lesotho-becomes-only-african-country-with-no-case-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=215344","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho becomes only African country with no case of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Lesotho remains the only country in Africa with no confirmed cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming after Comoros recorded its first case of COVID-19 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Lesotho\u2019s Health Minister, Nkaku Kabi, in a statement, disclosed that the last three samples of suspected COVID-19 cases came out negative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three samples of suspected Coronavirus included a sample from a person who died while waiting for results. The tests were conducted in South Africa and came out negative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result is an encouragement to continue to comply with the World Health Organization\u2019s and the Ministry of Health\u2019s protocols and safety measures against the spread of the Coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, despite not recording any COVID-19 cases, Lesotho imposed a 21-day lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, reported that the number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa have risen to over 38,000 in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Cameroon have continued to top the list of countries with the highest confirmed cases.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesotho remains the only country in Africa with no confirmed cases of COVID-19. This is coming after Comoros recorded its first case of COVID-19 on Thursday. Lesotho\u2019s Health Minister, Nkaku Kabi, in a statement, disclosed that the last three samples of suspected COVID-19 cases came out negative. \u201cThe three samples of suspected Coronavirus included a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215345,"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":[14173,14767,354],"class_list":["post-215344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-lesotho","tag-south-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215344","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=215344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}