{"id":181757,"date":"2021-02-26T00:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-nigeria-covid19-update-24-february-2021?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-02-26T00:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:50:20","slug":"coronavirus-nigeria-covid-19-update-24-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coronavirus-nigeria-covid-19-update-24-february-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Nigeria: COVID-19 update (24 February 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/7ffffc54f51c8a1\/600\/418\" alt=\"Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>655 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lagos-240<br \/>\nOgun-88<br \/>\nRivers-56<br \/>\nFCT-51<br \/>\nKaduna-43<br \/>\nKano-25<br \/>\nPlateau-21<br \/>\nTaraba-19<br \/>\nEdo-17<br \/>\nAbia15<br \/>\nDelta-13<br \/>\nNasarawa-11<br \/>\nAkwa Ibom-10<br \/>\nKwara-10<br \/>\nOyo-10<br \/>\nKebbi-9<br \/>\nBorno-5<br \/>\nBayelsa-4<br \/>\nGombe-4<br \/>\nEkiti-2<br \/>\nOsun-2<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>153,842 confirmed<br \/>\n130,818 discharged<br \/>\n1,885 deaths<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by <a href='https:\/\/apo-opa.com' target='_blank' rel=\"noopener\">APO Group<\/a> on behalf of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/a569bbdcd7f430f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/a569bbdcd7f430f\" alt=\"Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)\" style=\"max-width:500px;\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/a569bbdcd7f430f\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>655 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria; Lagos-240 Ogun-88 Rivers-56 FCT-51 Kaduna-43 Kano-25 Plateau-21 Taraba-19 Edo-17 Abia15 Delta-13 Nasarawa-11 Akwa Ibom-10 Kwara-10 Oyo-10 Kebbi-9 Borno-5 Bayelsa-4 Gombe-4 Ekiti-2 Osun-2 153,842 confirmed 130,818 discharged 1,885 deaths Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Media filesDownload logo Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-181757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/coronavirus-nigeria-covid-19-update-24-february-2021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}