{"id":23928,"date":"2020-04-15T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23928"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:50:52","slug":"nigeria-records-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria records highest case as toll hits 373"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Preass-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday night confirmed it recorded additional 11 new cases of coronavirus in Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>The development is coming after the agency earlier confirmed 19 cases on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As at 9:20pm, Nigeria confirmed 14 cases in Lagos, 1 in Kano, 2 in FCT, 1 in Akwa-Ibom and 1 in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Tuesday evening, the agency on its Twitter handle confirmed 11 new cases in Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>This means Lagos State on Tuesday April 14, 2020, recorded 25 cases, making it the highest number of cases recorded since its first COVID-19 case was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria now has 373 confirmed cases.<br \/>\nThe NCDC wrote, \u201cEleven new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs at 11:00 pm 14th April there are 373 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c99 have been discharged, with 11 deaths,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Preass-Nigeria: The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday night confirmed it recorded additional 11 new cases of coronavirus in Lagos State. The development is coming after the agency earlier confirmed 19 cases on Tuesday. As at 9:20pm, Nigeria confirmed 14 cases in Lagos, 1 in Kano, 2 in FCT, 1 in Akwa-Ibom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[371,694,1425],"class_list":["post-23928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-akwa-ibom","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 highest case as toll hits 373 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Preass-Nigeria:The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday night confirmed it recorded additional 11 new cases of\" \/>\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-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria records highest case as toll hits 373\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Preass-Nigeria:The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday night confirmed it recorded additional 11 new cases of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-15T15:50:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/320x180_1074871.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"180\" \/>\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\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\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-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria records highest case as toll hits 373\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-15T15:50:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373\"},\"wordCount\":141,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/320x180_1074871.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akwa Ibom\",\"Edo state\",\"NCDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-highest-case-as-toll-hits-373\",\"name\":\"Nigeria records highest case as toll hits 373 - 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