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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control late Tuesday night confirmed eleven new cases of the novel coronavirus bringing to 373 the total number of confirmed infections in the country.
The eleven new cases occurred in Lagos.
The NCDC earlier on Tuesday night confirmed Nineteen new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s toll to 362.
According to the health agency, Lagos recorded 14 new cases, FCT 2, Kano 1, Akwa Ibom 1 and Edo 1.
But in an update later, the agency disclosed via its Twitter account that Lagos recorded eleven new infections bringing the total for Lagos for the day to 25.
The tweet read, ”Eleven new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Lagos State”.
”As at 11:00 pm 14th April, there are 373 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 99 have been discharged with 11 deaths.”
The NCDC further revealed that the total number of confirmed cases of the dreaded virus is now 373, with 99 patients discharged and 11 deaths recorded.
–Lagos identifies 119 people with COVID-19 symptoms during house-to-house search
Meanwhile, Lagos state commissioner for health, Akin Abayomi, on Tuesday revealed that 119 persons were found with symptoms of coronavirus and that tests are being conducted to determine their status.
The discovery followed an active search of possible COVID-19 cases in communities in the state which has so far covered a total of 118,000 households.
Abayomi who made the disclosure at a media briefing said community search was activated to limit the spread of the disease in the state which has the highest number of COVID-19 patients in the country.
“We’ve embarked on an active case search in communities. The idea is to go to hot spots and go from door to door with our health personnel. So far, in the last two days, we’ve visited 118,000 households and we’re looking for the typical symptoms of COVID-19. We’ve identified about 119 people who have the symptoms that are suggestive of COVID-19,” he said.
“But let me remind you that COVID is one of the viruses that can cause respiratory symptoms. There are many viruses. So, the idea is to take samples from these 119 and analyse them and that would give us an idea of how much COVID-19 activity is happening in the communities.”
The exercise tagged “Community Active Case Search” was announced by the commissioner last week, and it is expected to run for an initial period of two weeks.
Lagos is the epicentre of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria with 215 of the confirmed 362 cases.
The state has discharged 70 of the patients with six deaths recorded.
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