{"id":36405,"date":"2024-06-26T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=36405"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:29:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:29:02","slug":"kano-government-denies-ncdcs-cholera-outbreak-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/26\/kano-government-denies-ncdcs-cholera-outbreak-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Kano Government Denies NCDC\u2019s Cholera Outbreak Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kano State Ministry of Health has refuted reports from the Nigeria Centre for Disease and Prevention (NCDC) claiming that the state is experiencing a cholera outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Abdullahi, the Public Relations Officer for the Ministry, asserted on Wednesday that Kano is currently cholera-free, contradicting the NCDC&#8217;s listing of Kano among the 31 states battling the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the NCDC, 1,141 cholera cases were recorded between January and June 11, 2024, with 65 confirmed cases. The agency reported a total of 1,288 cases and 34 confirmed deaths across the affected states.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi, however, stated, &#8220;According to our findings so far, there is no cholera outbreak in Kano. We don\u2019t have a single case as of now. We have seen some reports in the media but we can categorically tell you that there is none.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kano State Ministry of Health has refuted reports from the Nigeria Centre for Disease and Prevention (NCDC) claiming that the state is experiencing a cholera outbreak. &nbsp; Ibrahim Abdullahi, the Public Relations Officer for the Ministry, asserted on Wednesday that Kano is currently cholera-free, contradicting the NCDC&#8217;s listing of Kano among the 31 states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36407,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405\/revisions\/36407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}