{"id":218152,"date":"2020-05-12T21:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=218152"},"modified":"2020-05-12T21:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:38:23","slug":"russia-putins-aide-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=218152","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Putin&#8217;s aide tests positive for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, has tested positive for coronavirus.<br \/>\nHe personally made the announcement on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u201cI am receiving treatment,\u201d State news agency TASS quoted him as saying.<br \/>\nThe 52-year-old explained that the last time he met with Putin was one month ago.<br \/>\nEarlier, Russia Prime Minister, Mikhali Mishustinand and two ministers tested positive for COVID-19.<br \/>\nPresident Putin has been working remotely for a month to avoid contracting the virus.<br \/>\nRegional officials had been directed to determine when to lift stricter quarantine restrictions at local levels.<br \/>\nRussia has recorded 232,000 cases of coronavirus and 2,100 deaths.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, has tested positive for coronavirus. He personally made the announcement on Tuesday. \u201cI am receiving treatment,\u201d State news agency TASS quoted him as saying. The 52-year-old explained that the last time he met with Putin was one month ago. Earlier, Russia Prime Minister, Mikhali Mishustinand and two ministers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218208,"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":[14173,10661,4805],"class_list":["post-218152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-putin","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218152","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=218152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}