{"id":33928,"date":"2020-12-26T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33928"},"modified":"2020-12-26T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T15:06:24","slug":"712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated","title":{"rendered":"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Nigeria on Friday recorded 712 fresh COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the new COVID-19 cases were recorded in 19 states of the federation and Abuja.<\/p>\n

It added that the number of COVID-19 fatalities in Nigeria stood at 1,246 as of Friday night.<\/p>\n

Also, the total number of confirmed cases increased to 82,747.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 70,239 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from various isolation facilities in the country.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO: 1,041 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 81,963. Deaths, recoveries updated<\/p>\n

The breakdown of the figure on a state-by-state basis revealed the following: Lagos (388), FCT (77), Kwara (39), Katsina (35), Bauchi (33), Plateau (22), Ogun (18), Akwa Ibom (16), Delta (13), and Kaduna (12).<\/p>\n

Others are \u2013 Osun (12), Yobe (11), Sokoto (10), Kebbi (8), Enugu (6), Edo (5), Ondo (3), Niger (2), Kano (1), and Oyo (1).<\/p>\n

\u201cTotal confirmed COVID-19 cases: 82,747.<\/p>\n

\u201cDischarged: 70,239 AND Deaths: 1,246.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Nigeria on Friday recorded 712 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the new COVID-19 cases were recorded in 19 states of the federation and Abuja. It added that the number of COVID-19 fatalities in Nigeria stood at 1,246 as of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1585,1709,1425,254],"class_list":["post-33928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-covid-19-2","tag-covid-19-cases-in-nigeria","tag-ncdc","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\n712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria on Friday recorded 712 fresh COVID-19 cases.\" \/>\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\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria on Friday recorded 712 fresh COVID-19 cases.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-26T17:20:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"346\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-26T17:20:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated\"},\"wordCount\":145,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Covid-19\",\"COVID-19 cases in Nigeria\",\"NCDC\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated\",\"name\":\"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-26T17:20:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Nigeria on Friday recorded 712 fresh COVID-19 cases.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":346,\"caption\":\"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated - Nigeria","description":"Nigeria on Friday recorded 712 fresh COVID-19 cases.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated","og_description":"Nigeria on Friday recorded 712 fresh COVID-19 cases.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2020-12-26T17:20:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":346,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated","datePublished":"2020-12-26T17:20:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated"},"wordCount":145,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Covid-19","COVID-19 cases in Nigeria","NCDC","Nigeria"],"articleSection":["all news","Coronavirus in Nigeria","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated","name":"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg","datePublished":"2020-12-26T17:20:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Nigeria on Friday recorded 712 fresh COVID-19 cases.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/img-5fe7514e24dfe.jpg","width":600,"height":346,"caption":"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/712-new-covid-19-cases-take-nigerias-total-to-82747-deaths-recoveries-updated#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"712 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria\u2019s total to 82,747. Deaths, recoveries updated"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}