{"id":238790,"date":"2020-07-22T08:24:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=238790"},"modified":"2020-07-22T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:42:58","slug":"covid-19-el-rufai-govt-confirms-20-new-cases-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=238790","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: El-Rufai govt confirms 20 new cases in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Kaduna State government has confirmed 20 new cases of COVID-19 in the State.<\/p>\n<p>It disclosed that the 20 new cases are located in Chikun, Jema\u2019a, Kaduna South and Kaduna North.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on its verified Twitter handle, the state government disclosed that 59 COVID-19 patients have also been discharged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCovid-19 Update, 21 July 2020: 59 patients have been discharged. 20 samples returned positive out of 108 tested. The new cases are from Chikun 11, Jema\u2019a 7 and one each from Kaduna South and Kaduna North,\u201d it tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nigeria recorded 576 new cases of COVID-19, according to statistics from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the current tally in the country to 37,801 confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna State government has confirmed 20 new cases of COVID-19 in the State. It disclosed that the 20 new cases are located in Chikun, Jema\u2019a, Kaduna South and Kaduna North. In a tweet on its verified Twitter handle, the state government disclosed that 59 COVID-19 patients have also been discharged. \u201cCovid-19 Update, 21 July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238791,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[297,5730,4166,218],"class_list":["post-238790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-birnin-gwari","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-gunmen","tag-kaduna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238790","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=238790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}