{"id":30397,"date":"2020-12-17T23:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30397"},"modified":"2020-12-17T23:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:19:53","slug":"plateaus-lalong-goes-into-isolation-after-testing-positive-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30397","title":{"rendered":"Plateau&#8217;s Lalong goes into isolation after testing positive to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Plateau State Government has announced that its head and chief executive, Governor Simon Lalong, has tested positive to COVID-19 following a test he and members of his family carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is third governor to go into isolation after Kaduna&#8217;s Mr. Nasir el Rufai, and Lagos&#8217; Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who also tested positive. el Rufai went into isolation as a precaution after a member of his family and some of his staff tested positive for the disease.<br \/><br \/>In a statement, Lalong&#8217;s spokesman, Dr. Makut Simon Macham, said the test result indicated that Governor Lalong&#8217;s test returned positive while all members of his family tested negative.<br \/><br \/>He adds, &#8216;Consequently, the Governor who is asymptomatic has gone into isolation while his close aides are being tested.<br \/><br \/>He said that the Governor will henceforth work from home during the period of treatment, while state matters requiring his physical presence will be handled by the Deputy Governor.<br \/><br \/>The Governor urged citizens of the Plateau State to observe all COVID-19 protocols as the pandemic is still prevalent.<br \/><br \/>He advises citizens to apply all precautionary measures especially during the festive period by avoiding large gatherings, using facemasks, washing hands with soap and water and adhering to personal hygiene measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plateau State Government has announced that its head and chief executive, Governor Simon Lalong, has tested positive to COVID-19 following a test he and members of his family carried out. He is third governor to go into isolation after Kaduna&#8217;s Mr. Nasir el Rufai, and Lagos&#8217; Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who also tested positive. el Rufai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7],"tags":[1180,1202,1809],"class_list":["post-30397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-isolation","tag-lalong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397","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=30397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}