{"id":215875,"date":"2020-05-03T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T09:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=215875"},"modified":"2020-05-03T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T09:48:20","slug":"pregnant-woman-dies-in-ogun-fmc-as-ncdc-confirms-second-covid-19-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=215875","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant woman dies in Ogun FMC as NCDC confirms second COVID-19 death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">There is panic in Abeokuta as a pregnant woman has died of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that the woman died at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Idi Aba, Abeokuta, as a result of suspected coronavirus complications.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased, according to reliable sources, had earlier been tested for COVID-19 alongside two others \u2013 a male and a female.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent learnt that she died while awaiting the result of the test.<\/p>\n<p>A source had hinted that when the results of the three persons returned, a male and the late expectant mother tested positive, while the other female tested negative.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased pregnant woman, DAILY POST learnt, had visited the obstetrics and gynecology units of the facility.<\/p>\n<p>She was reportedly moved from one ward to the other before her death.<\/p>\n<p>Her remains had been deposited at the FMC mortuary, while the other positive case was moved to the Ogun State COVID-19 Isolation centre at Ikenne, it was learnt.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the FMC, Segun Orisajo neither confirmed nor denied the development.<\/p>\n<p>He told newsmen that the management of the FMC would be meeting today to make an official response.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, said she was \u201caware of the unfortunate demise of an obstetric patient at FMC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coker, however, replied that \u201cI am yet to receive a report from the clinical team at FMC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that Ogun State has recorded its second death of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from the NCDC website, Ogun now has two deaths out of its 56 confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the centre also disclosed that another patient was discharged yesterday, making the total number of discharged patients nine.<\/p>\n<p>As as at 7:14am on May 3, NCDC said Ogun has 45 active COVID-19 cases.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is panic in Abeokuta as a pregnant woman has died of Coronavirus. DAILY POST gathered that the woman died at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Idi Aba, Abeokuta, as a result of suspected coronavirus complications. The deceased, according to reliable sources, had earlier been tested for COVID-19 alongside two others \u2013 a male and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215876,"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":[2137,14173,397,391],"class_list":["post-215875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-abeokuta","tag-coronavirus","tag-ncdc","tag-ogun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215875","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=215875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}