COVID-19: Nigeria confirms three new cases in Lagos, one in Oyo

Chidi Samuel| The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday confirmed three new cases of #COVID19 in Lagos and one in Oyo state.

According to the health agency, the new cases had a history of travelling to high-risk countries in the last seven days.

This brings the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country to 26 as at 8:05 am on Sunday.

In a tweet via its official twitter handle, @NCDCgov, the agency said, of the 26 confirmed cases, 2 have been discharged with no death.

The tweet read, ”One new case of #COVID19 has been confirmed in Oyo state, Nigeria”.

”As at 08:05 am on the 22nd of March, there are 26 confirmed cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria”.

”Of the 26 confirmed cases, 2 have been discharged with no death”.

The breakdown of cases by states currently-
-Lagos- 19
-FCT- 3
-Ogun- 2
-Ekiti- 1
-Oyo- 1

Earlier on Sunday, Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde had revealed that, “The COVID-19 confirmation test for the suspected case at Bodija has come back POSITIVE. The result was released at 17:35 PM of March 21, 2020.”

“Another returnee from Texas, USA, has also been identified at Oluyole local government area. She has been kept in self-isolation with close monitoring by the state epidemiological team. All recent returnees are again urged to identify themselves to ministry officials and self-isolate for 14 days.”