{"id":25873,"date":"2020-04-11T22:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25873"},"modified":"2020-04-11T22:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:34:45","slug":"gov-ganduje-confirms-first-case-of-coronavirus-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25873","title":{"rendered":"Gov Ganduje Confirms First Case of Coronavirus in Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano has confirmed the first coronavirus case in Kano, the most populated state in Nigeria.<br \/>\nSpeaking in Hausa language in a video recording, the governor said the patient had been taken to a designated isolated centre in the state.<br \/>\nHe said the state government is working towards putting in place restrictive measures to contain the pandemic.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are liaising with religious and market leaders on the stringent measures to curtail large gatherings of people in places of worships and markets.\u201d<br \/>\nKano state is the most populated state in Nigeria according to the census conducted in 2006 and had a population of over 9 million people. It is located in the north-west geopolitical zone of Nigeria.<br \/>\nCreated on May 27, 1967 from part of the Northern Region, Kano state borders Katsina State to the north-west, Jigawa State to the north-east, Bauchi State to the south-east and Kaduna State to the south-west. The capital of Kano State is Kano.<br \/>\nBy <strong>PRNigeria<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano has confirmed the first coronavirus case in Kano, the most populated state in Nigeria. Speaking in Hausa language in a video recording, the governor said the patient had been taken to a designated isolated centre in the state. He said the state government is working towards putting in place restrictive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7],"tags":[1180,323,90],"class_list":["post-25873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-ganduje","tag-kano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}