{"id":1439,"date":"2014-09-06T07:10:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T07:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2014-09-06T07:10:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T07:10:22","slug":"ebola-cameroon-quarantines-60-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"Ebola: Cameroon quarantines 60 Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x2401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1440\" alt=\"Ebola-globalpostcom-360x240\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x2401-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x2401-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x2401.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to the Ebola crisis that has claimed lives of seven Nigerians, the Cameroonian government has quarantined 60 Nigerians in its South-West region over the fear of the disease spreading to the country.<\/p>\n<p>A report by a Cameroonian online newspaper, <em>cameroon-info.net,<\/em> said the sixty Nigerians were quarantined in the Ekok, Ekondo, and Titi communities in the country\u2019s South-West region close to the border with Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s Minister of Health, Dr. Lukong Bay, said that there would be a restriction of movement of people from Nigeria and other countries affected by the disease to Cameroon as from Tuesday, September 2, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>It was also stated in the report that the Nigerians would be released after 21 days of surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>The report said, \u201cThis is a new delight that perhaps the minister of health has expected Tuesday afternoon in this region for a working session with the persons responsible for the implementation of the response plan on Ebola disease in the ports of Limbe and Tiko.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of preventive measures against the epidemic in West Africa with nearly 1,500 deaths already recorded, the South-West, which borders with Nigeria, is considered one of the parts of the country that require a closer monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the Ebola crisis that has claimed lives of seven Nigerians, the Cameroonian government has quarantined 60 Nigerians in its South-West region over the fear of the disease spreading to the country. A report by a Cameroonian online newspaper, cameroon-info.net, said the sixty Nigerians were quarantined in the Ekok, Ekondo, and Titi communities in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ebola-globalpostcom-360x2401.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-nd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}