{"id":35869,"date":"2021-01-27T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=35869"},"modified":"2021-01-27T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T12:09:42","slug":"benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Benue Gov, Ortom, tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has tested positive for COVID-19 after recent test results of most of his close aides returned positive in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Ortom\u2019s Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, who confirmed the news in a statement on Wednesday, said though the Governor is asymptomatic, he has commenced COVID-19 treatment as prescribed by medical personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The statement advised those who had come in contact with the Governor in the last couple of days to go for COVID-19 test.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads in part:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is equally important that those who came in contact with the Governor and other persons who have tested positive for the virus should go for a test to ascertain their COVID-19 status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Ortom urges Benue people to continue to observe the protocol for the prevention of the virus such as wearing of face masks, use of sanitizers, regular handwashing and physical distancing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe admonished the people not to be scared of going for COVID-19 test as doing so would help curb the spread of the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has tested positive for COVID-19 after recent test results of most of his close aides returned positive in the last few weeks. Ortom\u2019s Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, who confirmed the news in a statement on Wednesday, said though the Governor is asymptomatic, he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1585,254,2684],"class_list":["post-35869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-covid-19-2","tag-nigeria","tag-samuel-ortom"],"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>Benue Gov, Ortom, tests positive for Covid-19 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has tested positive for COVID-19 after recent test results of most of his clo ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benue Gov, Ortom, tests positive for Covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has tested positive for COVID-19 after recent test results of most of his clo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-27T15:23:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-601157e9bcbd2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"377\" \/>\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\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Benue Gov, Ortom, tests positive for Covid-19\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-27T15:23:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19\"},\"wordCount\":188,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-601157e9bcbd2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Covid-19\",\"Nigeria\",\"Samuel Ortom\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-gov-ortom-tests-positive-for-covid-19\",\"name\":\"Benue Gov, Ortom, tests positive for Covid-19 - 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