{"id":250616,"date":"2020-08-24T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T10:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=250616"},"modified":"2020-08-24T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:21:17","slug":"lagos-health-commissioner-prof-abayomi-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=250616","title":{"rendered":"Lagos health commissioner, Prof. Abayomi tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has tested positive for COVID-19.<br \/>\nThe Lagos Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed this in a press statement released on Monday.<br \/>\nHe announced that the commissioner tested positive after being in contact with persons who tested positive for the virus.<br \/>\nPart of the statement read: \u201dHonorable Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi became aware of his status following the required testing protocol of contact tracing procedures.\u201d<br \/>\nOmotoso urged the public to pray for his recovery, adding that the commissioner will be in isolation for 14 days.<br \/>\n\u201cThe commissioner is doing well with no symptoms. Adhering to the protocol of the home-based strategy in Lagos State, but will be isolating in his home for the next 14 days and will continue to discharge his duties both as the Deputy Incident Commander of the Incident Command System for COVID-19 and most especially, as the Honorable Commissioner for Health,\u201d the statement added.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has tested positive for COVID-19. The Lagos Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed this in a press statement released on Monday. He announced that the commissioner tested positive after being in contact with persons who tested positive for the virus. Part of the statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250617,"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":[2658,14686,250],"class_list":["post-250616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-abayomi","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250616","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=250616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}