{"id":295950,"date":"2020-12-23T07:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=295950"},"modified":"2020-12-23T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:46:48","slug":"covid-19-nigeria-records-999-new-cases-death-toll-now-1231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=295950","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Nigeria records 999 new cases, death toll now 1,231"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A total of nine hundred and ninety-nine, 999, new cases of COVID-19 infections have been recorded in Nigeria.<br \/>\nThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced the figure on Tuesday night in a tweet via its official Twitter handle.<br \/>\nNCDC said FCT and Lagos recorded 416 and 324 cases, respectively, while Kaduna State followed with 68 cases.<br \/>\nNigeria now has a total of 79,789 confirmed cases and 1,231 deaths.<br \/>\nThe tweet reads, \u201c999 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;<br \/>\nFCT-416<br \/>\nLagos-324<br \/>\nKaduna-68<br \/>\nPlateau-42<br \/>\nKwara-32<br \/>\nKano-24<br \/>\nGombe-14<br \/>\nSokoto-12<br \/>\nYobe-12<br \/>\nAkwa Ibom-11<br \/>\nBayelsa-10<br \/>\nRivers-7<br \/>\nBauchi-7<br \/>\nOgun-6<br \/>\nOyo-5<br \/>\nEdo-4<br \/>\nTaraba-4<br \/>\nJigawa-1<br \/>\n79,789 confirmed<br \/>\n68,879 discharged<br \/>\n1,231 deaths.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of nine hundred and ninety-nine, 999, new cases of COVID-19 infections have been recorded in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced the figure on Tuesday night in a tweet via its official Twitter handle. NCDC said FCT and Lagos recorded 416 and 324 cases, respectively, while Kaduna State followed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295951,"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":[2658,14173,397],"class_list":["post-295950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-ncdc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295950","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=295950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}