{"id":24371,"date":"2020-04-26T15:35:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T15:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=24371"},"modified":"2020-04-26T15:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T15:35:22","slug":"ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182","title":{"rendered":"NCDC confirms 87 cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria as toll rises to 1182"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, on Saturday, confirmed eighty-seven (87) new cases of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed this on its Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 1182.<\/p>\n<p>It tweeted, \u201c87 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c33 in Lagos, 18 in Borno, 12 in Osun, 9 in Katsina, 4 in Kano, 4 in Ekiti, 3 in Edo, 3 in Bauchi, 1 in Imo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs at 11:55 pm, 25th April, there are 1182 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDischarged: 222, deaths 35.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Nigeria, on Saturday, confirmed eighty-seven (87) new cases of Coronavirus. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed this on its Twitter page. This brings the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 1182. It tweeted, \u201c87 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported. \u201c33 in Lagos, 18 in Borno, 12 in Osun, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,1437],"tags":[463,1488,472],"class_list":["post-24371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-files","tag-bauchi","tag-covid19","tag-disease"],"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>NCDC confirms 87 cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria as toll rises to 1182 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Nigeria, on Saturday, confirmed eighty-seven (87) new cases of Coronavirus.The Nigeria Center for Disease\" \/>\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\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NCDC confirms 87 cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria as toll rises to 1182\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Nigeria, on Saturday, confirmed eighty-seven (87) new cases of Coronavirus.The Nigeria Center for Disease\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-26T15:35:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/corona-testing-1536x1024-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\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\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"NCDC confirms 87 cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria as toll rises to 1182\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-26T15:35:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182\"},\"wordCount\":88,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/corona-testing-1536x1024-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bauchi\",\"COVID19\",\"disease\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ncdc-confirms-87-cases-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-as-toll-rises-to-1182\",\"name\":\"NCDC confirms 87 cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria as toll rises to 1182 - 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