{"id":17824,"date":"2020-03-05T18:07:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=17824"},"modified":"2020-03-05T18:07:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T14:07:26","slug":"egypt-confirms-3rd-coronavirus-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/03\/05\/egypt-confirms-3rd-coronavirus-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt confirms 3rd coronavirus case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Egypt\u2019s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation, WHO, confirmed on Thursday the third case of coronavirus, COVID-19, in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infected person is an Egyptian national who came from Serbia and transited through France for 12 hours, the ministry said in a statement, added that a few days after his arrival, the 44-year-old patient headed to a hospital where he was tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry spokesperson Khaled Megahed said in the statement that the new case has been quarantined, noting that the ministry has notified the WHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megahed affirmed that all the state\u2019s hospitals and medical institutions are on high alert should any new cases arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation, WHO, confirmed on Thursday the third case of coronavirus, COVID-19, in Egypt. The infected person is an Egyptian national who came from Serbia and transited through France for 12 hours, the ministry said in a statement, added that a few days after his arrival, the 44-year-old &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17824","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\/17824","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=17824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17826,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824\/revisions\/17826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}