UPDATED: Lagos Confirms 18 COVID-19 Cases, Discharges 16

The Lagos state government has confirmed eighteenbadditional cases of the dreaded coronavirus alongside the discharge of sixteen COVID-19 patients undergoing treatments at the Lagos State isolation centres.

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, made this known via his Twitter handle on Thursday.

He said, “18 new cases of #COVID19 Infection were confirmed in Lagos on 15th of April, 2020.”

“The total number of discharged #COVID19 patients in Lagos is now 85.”

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The new confirmation brings total number of COVID19 cases in Lagos to 235.

The NCDC said, “Thirty-four new cases of #COVID19 have been reported as follows: 18 in Lagos, 12 in Kano, two in Katsina, one in Delta, one in Niger.

“As of 11:20 pm on the 15th of April, there are 407 confirmed cases of #COVID-19 reported in Nigeria. 128 have been discharged with 12 deaths.

“Number of states with confirmed cases of #COVID-19: 19 + FCT. Currently, Lagos has 232 cases, FCT- 58, Osun- 20, Kano- 16, Edo- 15, Oyo- 11, Ogun- nine, Katsina- seven, Bauchi- six, Kaduna- six, Akwa Ibom- six, Kwara- four, Delta- four, Ondo- three, Enugu- two, Ekiti- two, Rivers -two,

Niger- two, Benue- one, and Anambra- one.”

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