{"id":24997,"date":"2020-05-11T16:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=24997"},"modified":"2020-05-11T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:42:36","slug":"imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Imo govt confirms one fresh case of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Imo State government led by Governor Hope Uzodinma has confirmed one new case arising from the deadly COVID-19 disease in the state which now brings the total number of infections recorded to three.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed on Monday by the Commissioner for Health, Dr (Mrs.) Damaris Osunkwo, who said all three patients were doing well in the isolation centre where they were receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far we still have three confirmed cases of COVID- 19 in our state. They are all doing well at the isolation and treatment centre,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, Dr Osunkwo said the third and newly confirmed case is a 43-year- old returnee from Kano State who arrived his home in Ehime Obowo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/oyo-governor-promises-local-government-autonomy\/\">local government<\/a>\u00a0area recently.<\/p>\n<p>She added that contacts had been listed and followed up, adding that samples have also been taken from people considered highly exposed to him and already sent to the laboratory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"abh_box abh_box_down abh_box_fancy\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Imo State government led by Governor Hope Uzodinma has confirmed one new case arising from the deadly COVID-19 disease in the state which now brings the total number of infections recorded to three. This was revealed on Monday by the Commissioner for Health, Dr (Mrs.) Damaris Osunkwo, who said all three patients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":22888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,1437],"tags":[1451,1454],"class_list":["post-24997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-files","tag-covid-19","tag-imo-east"],"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>Imo govt confirms one fresh case of COVID-19 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Imo State government led by Governor Hope Uzodinma has confirmed one new case arising from the deadly COVID-19\" \/>\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\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Imo govt confirms one fresh case of COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Imo State government led by Governor Hope Uzodinma has confirmed one new case arising from the deadly COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-11T16:42:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/corona-virus-Nigeria.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Imo govt confirms one fresh case of COVID-19\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-11T16:42:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19\"},\"wordCount\":161,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/corona-virus-Nigeria.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19.\",\"Imo East\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-govt-confirms-one-fresh-case-of-covid-19\",\"name\":\"Imo govt confirms one fresh case of COVID-19 - 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