{"id":17732,"date":"2020-03-02T21:46:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=17732"},"modified":"2020-03-02T22:02:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T18:02:25","slug":"saudi-arabia-announces-the-first-case-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/03\/02\/saudi-arabia-announces-the-first-case-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia announces the first case of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Saudi Ministry of Health today reported the first case of new coronavirus, COVID-19, for a citizen coming from Iran through the Kingdom of Bahrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The citizen did not disclose his presence in Iran at the Saudi port,&#8221; the Ministry said in a statement published by the state news agency, SPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry further stated that a sample for a laboratory examination of the person confirmed that he was infected with the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi Ministry of Health today reported the first case of new coronavirus, COVID-19, for a citizen coming from Iran through the Kingdom of Bahrain. &#8220;The citizen did not disclose his presence in Iran at the Saudi port,&#8221; the Ministry said in a statement published by the state news agency, SPA. The Ministry further stated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17735,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17732\/revisions\/17735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}