Coronavirus Kills 25-Year-Old Man In Lagos

A total of 51 coronavirus deaths have been recorded in 13 states and the FCT.

Lagos State has announced its 20th coronavirus-related death two months after the disease broke out in Nigeria.

An update by the state’s Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi , on Thursday, April 30, 2020 showed that the patient died on Wednesday, April 29.

“We regret to announce additional #COVID19 related death involving a 25-year-old male who at the time of admission was in a state of severe breathlessness,” Abayomi said.

The state is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in Nigeria with 931 cases recorded, 53.9% of the country’s total of 1,728 cases.

In its Wednesday update, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) indicated that Lagos has actually recorded 21 fatalities, the highest of any state in the country.

A total of seven deaths were recorded on Wednesday, the highest in a single day since the crisis started, raising Nigeria’s death toll to 51.

Borno has recorded the second highest number of deaths with five, followed by Kano, Edo, Sokoto, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja with three each.

Katsina, Osun, Oyo, Delta, and Rivers have recorded two deaths each; and Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, and Ogun have recorded one each.

Lagos also discharged its highest number of recovered patients in a day with 49 patients released to go home on Wednesday.

“The total number of discharged patients in Lagos now stands at 187,” Abayomi said.

A total of 307 recovered patients have been released.

Nigeria has recorded at least one coronavirus case in 34 states and the FCT. Only Cross River and Kogi are yet to record any cases.