{"id":25026,"date":"2020-05-12T17:34:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25026"},"modified":"2020-05-12T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:34:57","slug":"yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths","title":{"rendered":"Yobe confirms 20 COVID-19 cases, four deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Yobe State Commissioner for Health and Vice Chairman of COVID 19, Dr. Mohammed Lawan Gana has confirmed that the number of COVID-19 cases in the state now stands at 20.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gana at a media briefing in Damaturu on Tuesday also disclosed that the state has recorded four deaths at the state isolation centres in Damaturu and Nguru.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gana who was responding to questions said most the people that died were brought in late to the health facilities and were already manifesting severe symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo respond to your question the mortality in the Isolation centre, I want to tell you that as at today, we have twenty confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Yobe state. Then four people have died. Three died here in Damaturu and one in Nguru. All the people that died are suspected to have the disease because their samples were collected but the results came after they have died. I want to point out that all the people that died were presented very late to the health facilities and isolated. Of course almost all of them have underlying illness,\u201d Dr. Gana informed.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent however observed that the data on the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is contrary to the commissioner\u2019s claim as the NCDC records indicates 12 active COVID-19 cases in the state and 1 death making a total of 13 in the state.<\/p>\n<p>At the Media briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID 19, the NCDC said the number of cases in the state remain stagnant amidst reports of positive cases.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s clarification by the commissioner has put to rest the questions of the update of the virus in the state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Yobe State Commissioner for Health and Vice Chairman of COVID 19, Dr. Mohammed Lawan Gana has confirmed that the number of COVID-19 cases in the state now stands at 20. Dr. Gana at a media briefing in Damaturu on Tuesday also disclosed that the state has recorded four deaths at the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":25027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,1437],"tags":[1451,1425],"class_list":["post-25026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-files","tag-covid-19","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>Yobe confirms 20 COVID-19 cases, four deaths - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Yobe State Commissioner for Health and Vice Chairman of COVID 19, Dr. Mohammed Lawan Gana has confirmed that the\" \/>\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\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yobe confirms 20 COVID-19 cases, four deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Yobe State Commissioner for Health and Vice Chairman of COVID 19, Dr. Mohammed Lawan Gana has confirmed that the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-12T17:34:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/yobe-state-map-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"225\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"225\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\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\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Yobe confirms 20 COVID-19 cases, four deaths\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-12T17:34:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths\"},\"wordCount\":284,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/yobe-state-map-1.png\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19.\",\"NCDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yobe-confirms-20-covid-19-cases-four-deaths\",\"name\":\"Yobe confirms 20 COVID-19 cases, four deaths - 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