{"id":21693,"date":"2020-06-18T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21693"},"modified":"2020-06-18T07:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:22:11","slug":"587-new-cases-of-covid-19-take-nigerias-total-to-17735-death-toll-now-469","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21693","title":{"rendered":"587 new cases of COVID-19 take Nigeria\u2019s total to 17,735; death toll now 469"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night confirmed 587 fresh COVID-19<\/a> cases in 17 states of the federation and Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its regular update on the pandemic situation in Nigeria, the NCDC said 14 persons died from COVID-19 complications on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, the COVID-19 death toll increased from 455 to 469.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the total number of confirmed cases increased to 17,735.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, 5,967 patients had been discharged from various isolation facilities across the country as at Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The breakdown of the figure on a state-by-state basis revealed the following: Lagos (155), Edo (75), FCT (67), Rivers (65), Oyo (56), Delta (50), Bayelsa (25), Plateau (18), Kaduna (18), Enugu (17), and Borno (12).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others are \u2013 Ogun (12), Ondo (7), Kwara (4), Kano (2), Gombe (2), Sokoto (1), and Kebbi (1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCDC said: \u201c17,735 cases of #COVID-19 in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDischarged: 5,967 AND Deaths: 469.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night confirmed 587 fresh COVID-19 cases in 17 states of the federation and Abuja. In its regular update on the pandemic situation in Nigeria, the NCDC said 14 persons died from COVID-19 complications on Wednesday. Consequently, the COVID-19 death toll increased from 455 to 469. Also, the total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n587 new cases of COVID-19 take Nigeria\u2019s total to 17,735; death toll now 469 » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21693\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21693#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"COVID-19\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"587 new cases of COVID-19 take Nigeria\u2019s total to 17,735; death toll now 469\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"587 new cases of COVID-19 take Nigeria\u2019s total to 17,735; death toll now 469 » WatchDog Plus Media","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:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21693","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21693#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"COVID-19","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"587 new cases of COVID-19 take Nigeria\u2019s total to 17,735; death toll now 469"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">COVID-19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night confirmed 587 fresh COVID-19 cases in 17 states of the federation and Abuja. In its regular update on the pandemic situation in Nigeria, the NCDC said 14 persons died from COVID-19 complications on Wednesday. Consequently, the COVID-19 death toll increased from 455 to 469. Also, the total…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21693"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}