{"id":321477,"date":"2021-03-01T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=321477"},"modified":"2021-03-01T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:33:02","slug":"africas-covid-19-cases-near-3-9-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=321477","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s COVID-19 cases near 3.9 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday confirmed that COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,891,047.<br \/>\nAccording to the continental disease control and prevention agency\u2019s COVID-19 dashboard, the death toll relating to the pandemic now stands at 103,519.<br \/>\nIt also revealed that a total of 3,463,677 people infected with COVID-19 had recovered across the continent.<br \/>\nThe Southern Africa region is the most COVID-19-affected area on the continent, followed by the Northern Africa region, according to the agency.<br \/>\nThe African countries with the highest number of positive cases include South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and Ethiopia.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Nigeria on Sunday recorded 240 fresh cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in 13 States and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.<br \/>\nThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, also confirmed that the nation now has a total number of 155,657 confirmed cases.<br \/>\nSo far, 1,907 persons have died of the disease in the country.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday confirmed that COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,891,047. According to the continental disease control and prevention agency\u2019s COVID-19 dashboard, the death toll relating to the pandemic now stands at 103,519. It also revealed that a total of 3,463,677 people infected with COVID-19 had recovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321478,"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":[2658,14575],"class_list":["post-321477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-covid-19"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321477","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=321477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}