{"id":324834,"date":"2020-07-20T03:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T03:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324834"},"modified":"2020-07-20T03:49:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T03:49:07","slug":"nigerian-foreign-minister-geoffrey-onyeama-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nigerian-foreign-minister-geoffrey-onyeama-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324835 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/geoffrey-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/geoffrey-1.jpg 458w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/geoffrey-1-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/>Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama on Sunday said that he had tested positive for Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Onyeama confirmed the news in a tweet and said that he had taken a Covid-19 test because of throat irritation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also said that this was his fourth COVID-19 test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDid my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday at the first sign of a throat irritation and unfortunately this time it came back positive. That is life! Win some lose some. Heading for isolation in a health facility and praying for the best,\u201d Onyeama tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nigeria has so far reported over 36,000 COVID-19 cases with more than 770 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama on Sunday said that he had tested positive for Covid-19. Onyeama confirmed the news in a tweet and said that he had taken a Covid-19 test because of throat irritation. He also said that this was his fourth COVID-19 test. \u201cDid my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday at the first sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[13221,13220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324836,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324834\/revisions\/324836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}