Just In: Coronavirus Cases Rises To 40 In Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control late Monday announced four new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) to bring to total cases in Nigeria to 40.

Ekohotblog reports that NCDC made the announcement via its verified Twitter handle @ NCDCgov, three are in Lagos State and one in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

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See the tweet;

Four new cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed in Nigeria. 3 are in Lagos State and 1 in FCT

Two of these cases are returning travellers

As at 11:00pm on the 23rd of March, there are 40 confirmed cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria. 2 have been discharged with 1 death recorded pic.twitter.com/cR94MO6xnC

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) March 23, 2020

Two of these cases are persons who returned to Nigeria from overseas, NCDC said.

Subsequently, the state -by – state cases of the contagion is as follows :
Lagos – 28
FCT- 7
Ogun- 2
Ekiti – 1
Oyo- 1
Edo – 1
Total : 40 confirmed cases

Meanwhile, this online news platform earlier reported that the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had on Monday announced the closure of all land borders into the country for four weeks in a bid to curtail the spread of Coronavirus.

The federal government also suspended the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting until further notice.

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