{"id":23476,"date":"2020-04-04T14:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T14:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23476"},"modified":"2020-04-04T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T14:28:02","slug":"nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria records two COVID-19 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has recorded two Coronavirus deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in a tweet on its official Twitter handle, said the deaths were recorded in Edo and Lagos States.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Coronavirus death toll in Nigeria has now risen to four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo new deaths have been recorded in Lagos and Edo State,\u201d the tweet read.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nigeria on Friday (NCDC), confirmed twenty new cases of coronavirus in the country.<\/p>\n<p>It said, \u201cTwenty new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 11 in Lagos, 3 in the FCT, 3 in Edo, 2 in Osun &amp; 1 in Ondo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has recorded two Coronavirus deaths. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in a tweet on its official Twitter handle, said the deaths were recorded in Edo and Lagos States. With this, Coronavirus death toll in Nigeria has now risen to four. \u201cTwo new deaths have been recorded in Lagos and Edo State,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,1438,1437],"tags":[1453,694,1425],"class_list":["post-23476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-files","tag-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-edo-state","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 records two COVID-19 deaths - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria has recorded two Coronavirus deaths.The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in a tweet on its official Twitter handle, said the deaths\" \/>\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-records-two-covid-19-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria records two COVID-19 deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria has recorded two Coronavirus deaths.The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in a tweet on its official Twitter handle, said the deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-04T14:28:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/NCDM.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"574\" \/>\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\/nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria records two COVID-19 deaths\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-04T14:28:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths\"},\"wordCount\":100,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/NCDM.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"Edo state\",\"NCDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-two-covid-19-deaths\",\"name\":\"Nigeria records two COVID-19 deaths - 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