The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday announced 14 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria.
The centre, through its twitter official handle @NCDCDgov, said 1 of the new cases is in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja while 12 cases are in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. The remaining 1 was confirmed in Bauchi.
“14 new cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed in Nigeria: 1 in FCT, 1 IN BAUCHI & 12 in Lagos,” the tweet reads.
Also, NCDC added that 6 of the cases were detected on a naval vessel, 3 are returning travellers into the country and 1 is a close contact of a confirmed case.
“Of the 14, 6 were detected on a vessel, 3 are returning travellers & 2 are close contacts of confirmed cases.”
This brings the total number of confirmed cases in Africa’s largest economy and the most populous black nation to 65 with 3 discharged and 1 death as at 7:35 pm, March 26, 2020.
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