{"id":217877,"date":"2020-05-11T16:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=217877"},"modified":"2020-05-11T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:03:13","slug":"nigeria-hits-4399-as-ncdc-confirms-248-new-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=217877","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria hits 4399 as NCDC confirms 248 new coronavirus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nigeria, on Sunday, recorded 248 new cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed this in a post on its Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 4399.<\/p>\n<p>Lagos recorded the highest number of cases with 81 new infected persons, followed by Jigawa State which recorded 35 new cases.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet reads: \u201c248 new cases of #COVID19;<br \/>\n81-Lagos<br \/>\n35-Jigawa<br \/>\n26-Borno<br \/>\n26-Kano<br \/>\n20-Bauchi<br \/>\n13-FCT<br \/>\n12-Edo<br \/>\n10-Sokoto<br \/>\n7-Zamfara<br \/>\n4-Kwara<br \/>\n4-Kebbi<br \/>\n2-Gombe<br \/>\n2-Taraba<br \/>\n2-Ogun<br \/>\n2-Ekiti<br \/>\n1-Osun<br \/>\n1-Bayelsa<\/p>\n<p>\u201c4399 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria<br \/>\nDischarged: 778, Deaths: 143.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria, on Sunday, recorded 248 new cases of COVID-19. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed this in a post on its Twitter page. This brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 4399. Lagos recorded the highest number of cases with 81 new infected persons, followed by Jigawa State which recorded 35 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[2658,14173,243],"class_list":["post-217877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217877","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=217877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}