{"id":23143,"date":"2020-03-27T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23143"},"modified":"2020-03-27T20:10:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:10:19","slug":"coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases in Nigeria hit 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Five new cases of coronavirus have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the announcement Friday njght.<\/p>\n<p>It tweeted that the new patients are in Abuja and Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>NCDC tweeted the new #COVID19 cases \u201chave been reported in Nigeria: 3 in FCT &amp; 2 in Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs at 08:00 pm 27th March there are 70 cases of confirmed #COVID19 reported Nigeria. 3 have been discharged with 1 death\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Five new cases of coronavirus have been reported. The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the announcement Friday njght. It tweeted that the new patients are in Abuja and Oyo State. NCDC tweeted the new #COVID19 cases \u201chave been reported in Nigeria: 3 in FCT &amp; 2 in Oyo State. \u201cAs at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,1438],"tags":[1453,488],"class_list":["post-23143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-oyo-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coronavirus cases in Nigeria hit 70 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Five new cases of coronavirus have been reported.The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coronavirus cases in Nigeria hit 70\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Five new cases of coronavirus have been reported.The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-27T20:10:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/097b0f63-coronavirus-696x522-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"522\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Coronavirus cases in Nigeria hit 70\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-27T20:10:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70\"},\"wordCount\":75,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/097b0f63-coronavirus-696x522-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"Oyo state\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/coronavirus-cases-in-nigeria-hit-70\",\"name\":\"Coronavirus cases in Nigeria hit 70 - 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