{"id":399534,"date":"2020-07-20T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=399534"},"modified":"2020-07-20T09:51:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:51:53","slug":"nigerian-foreign-minister-onyeama-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/nigerian-foreign-minister-onyeama-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Foreign Minister Onyeama tests positive for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA <strong>(SONNA)<\/strong> &#8211; Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19, and became the first member of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s cabinet to contract the new coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Onyeama, 64, said on Twitter he had taken a COVID-19 test because of a throat irritation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday at the first sign of a throat irritation and unfortunately this time it came back positive,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cHeading for isolation in a health facility and praying for the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buhari\u2019s cabinet has been conducting executive council meetings virtually as part of measures to keep the government working while abiding by social distancing rules.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"DPSlot_container StandardArticleBody_dp-slot-inline\">\n<div id=\"dpslot_native_12563634_USKCN24K0JI\" class=\"DPSlot_slot\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The government started a phased easing of lockdowns in May after implementing measures to slow the spread of the virus, which has killed 778 people in Nigeria and infected more than 36,000.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Onyeama has played a role in repatriating Nigerians stranded because of travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari\u2019s former chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died in April from the novel coronavirus, making him the most high profile person in the country to die from the virus.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>#Reuters <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>#SONNA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA (SONNA) &#8211; Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19, and became the first member of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s cabinet to contract the new coronavirus. Onyeama, 64, said on Twitter he had taken a COVID-19 test because of a throat irritation. \u201cDid my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399537,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399534\/revisions\/399537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}