{"id":30246,"date":"2024-05-03T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/adamawa-govt-confirms-42-deaths-in-fresh-measles-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T18:00:12","slug":"adamawa-govt-confirms-42-deaths-in-fresh-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/adamawa-govt-confirms-42-deaths-in-fresh-measles-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Adamawa Govt confirms 42 deaths in fresh measles outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Adamawa State Government on Friday confirmed that 42 people have died due to outbreak of measles in Mubi and Gombi local government areas of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Health and Human Services, Felix Tangwame gave the figure to newsmen shortly after the State Executive Council meeting held at the Government House, Yola.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said the measles outbreak affected eight wards in Mubi and seven wards in Gombi local government areas, with a death toll of 42 out of 131 and 177 affected persons, respectively, in the two LGAs.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that steps had been taken to prevent any further spread of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Tangwame said upon receiving the report of the outbreak, the Ministry had responded swiftly and had been able to manage the situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the government and its partners are on top of the development.<\/p>\n<p>Adamawa Govt confirms 42 deaths in fresh measles outbreak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adamawa State Government on Friday confirmed that 42 people have died due to outbreak of measles in Mubi and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14779,1639,384,15],"tags":[1405,512,580,387,180],"class_list":["post-30246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adamawa-govt","category-health","category-metro","category-news","tag-adamawa","tag-govt","tag-health","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}