{"id":215630,"date":"2020-05-02T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=215630"},"modified":"2020-05-02T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:11:55","slug":"enugu-govt-confirms-new-case-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=215630","title":{"rendered":"Enugu govt confirms new case of Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Enugu State government on Saturday confirmed one new case of Coronavirus in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation was made known by Obi Emmanuel Ikechukwu, the Commissioner for Health, in a statement made available to DAILY POST.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, 4 cases have tested positive in Enugu, and two discharged.<\/p>\n<p>Ikechukwu said that the new confirmed case is a 39-year-old man who used to live and work in Lagos but recently traveled back to Enugu on the 22nd of April.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201dThe patient took ill subsequently and reported to a mission Hospital in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dStaff of the hospital alerted the State COVID-19 response team days later and samples were taken on the 29th of April which have turned out to be positive today, 1st May, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThis new case is not a contact of the 3rd case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThus far, cases reported in Enugu have had a positive travel history for this reason, greater vigilance at entry points into the State will be implemented since the cases reported in the state are not primary contacts of confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe Enugu State Ministry of Health continues to recommend to the good people of the State, to do the following :<\/p>\n<p>\u201dStay at home as much as you can or use a clean cloth-mask daily if you have to go out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAvoid touching the front of the mask while wearing it and remove your mask only from both ears at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWash your cloth mask, dry and iron it every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMaintain respiratory hygiene when you have to cough or sneeze and also adhere to social\/physical distancing always.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Wash your hands as often as you can with soap and running water or make use of an alcohol based hand sanitizer frequently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dCall these numbers if you think you may have or know someone who may have COVID-19 symptoms, 08182555550 or 09022333833, or the NCDC number \u2013 080097000010.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enugu State government on Saturday confirmed one new case of Coronavirus in the state. The confirmation was made known by Obi Emmanuel Ikechukwu, the Commissioner for Health, in a statement made available to DAILY POST. According to him, 4 cases have tested positive in Enugu, and two discharged. Ikechukwu said that the new confirmed case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215631,"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":[2658,14173,703],"class_list":["post-215630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-enugu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215630","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=215630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}