By our reporter | Nigeria on Monday confirmed the second death from coronavirus.
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, made the disclosure at a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.
He said, “Till date, three persons have been discharged after successful treatment. But sadly, another fatality was recorded over the weekend in the person of a patient who had severe underlying illnesses.
“We have intensified contact tracing and our strategy remains to promptly detect cases, isolate them, and follow up with their contacts and also isolate and treat, in order to reduce the spread of the infection.”
“As of today, the 30th of March, 2020, we have recorded 111 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria of which 68 are in Lagos, 21 in the FCT, seven in Oyo, three in Ogun, two in Bauchi, two in Edo, two in Osun, two in Enugu, and one each in Benue, Ekiti, Kaduna and Rivers States,” Ehanire added.
Ehanire stressed that majority of confirmed cases for the virus were persons who came in from overseas.
According to him, the highest number of confirmed cases are in Lagos and Abuja because they serve as the major gateways to the country.
The minister urged Nigerians to protect the elderly among them, as well as those having underlying health issues as they were the most vulnerable.
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