{"id":23765,"date":"2020-04-11T15:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T15:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23765"},"modified":"2020-04-11T15:56:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T15:56:18","slug":"ncdc-confirms-17-new-cases-in-nigeria-as-death-toll-globally-hits-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-confirms-17-new-cases-in-nigeria-as-death-toll-globally-hits-100000","title":{"rendered":"NCDC confirms 17 new cases in Nigeria as death toll globally hits 100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed seventeen new cases of cononavirus in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>NCDC made the announcement Friday night via its Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>This means there are 305 confirmed cases of the virus in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeventeen new cases of COVID19 have been reported as follows:<\/p>\n<p>8 in Lagos, 3 in Katsina, 2 in FCT, 1 in Niger 1 in Kaduna, 1 in Anambra, 1 in Ondo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs at 09:30 pm 10th April, there are 305 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c58 have been discharged with 7 deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the global death toll from coronavirus has surpassed 100,000.<\/p>\n<p>The figure which was released by Johns Hopkins University said there are nearly 1.7 million cases with more than 370,000 recoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed seventeen new cases of cononavirus in Nigeria. 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