{"id":23158,"date":"2020-03-28T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23158"},"modified":"2020-03-28T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:05:13","slug":"nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria confirms 11 new cases of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Eleven new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the announcement Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>It said the new patients are in Lagos, Enugu and Edo.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria now has 81 confirmed cases of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c11 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 8 in Lagos, 2 in Enugu &amp; 1 in Edo State<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs at 11:55pm 27th March, there are 81 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c 3 have been discharged with 1 death,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Eleven new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria. The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the announcement Friday night. It said the new patients are in Lagos, Enugu and Edo. Nigeria now has 81 confirmed cases of the virus. \u201c11 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,1437],"tags":[1453,1425],"class_list":["post-23158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-files","tag-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-ncdc"],"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>Nigeria confirms 11 new cases of COVID-19 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Eleven new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria.The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)\" \/>\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\/nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria confirms 11 new cases of COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Eleven new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria.The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-28T16:05:13+00:00\" \/>\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\/nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria confirms 11 new cases of COVID-19\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-28T16:05:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19\"},\"wordCount\":88,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"NCDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-confirms-11-new-cases-of-covid-19\",\"name\":\"Nigeria confirms 11 new cases of COVID-19 - 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