{"id":4942,"date":"2014-08-21T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2014-08-21T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T08:48:24","slug":"nigeria-suspects-new-ebola-cases-as-officials-sight-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-suspects-new-ebola-cases-as-officials-sight-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Suspects New Ebola Cases as Officials Sight Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in Nigeria\u2019s most populous city are assessing five new suspected cases of the Ebola virus, a top medical official said, two days after the health minister expressed confidence the outbreak in the country may soon end.<\/p>\n<p>The new patients were admitted to a hospital in Lagos on Aug. 19 and are being monitored in isolation wards, the state\u2019s Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, told reporters yesterday. Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Aug. 19 that Africa\u2019s biggest economy may be Ebola-free within a week as the number of people being treated for the virus had dropped to two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not exposed to the public and the public is in no danger from the two,\u201d Chukwu said in an interview with Bloomberg Television\u2019s Trish Regan and Shannon Pettypiece&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-08-20\/nigeria-may-be-ebola-free-in-a-week-as-cases-fall-minister-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in Nigeria\u2019s most populous city are assessing five new suspected cases of the Ebola virus, a top medical official said, two days after the health minister expressed confidence the outbreak in the country may soon end. The new patients were admitted to a hospital in Lagos on Aug. 19 and are being monitored in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,3716,1110,3717,3718,2477,257,4687,393,3258,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-doctors-in-nigeria","tag-ebola-virus","tag-hospital-in-lagos","tag-jide-idris","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-onyebuchi-chukwu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}