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BREAKING: COVID-19 Lands Nigeria’s Capital Abuja, 3 Persons Test Positive

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March 21, 2020

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Three persons under monitoring have tested positive to the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.

The PUNCH, in an exclusive on Saturday report that the index case is an official of the Federal Inland Revenue Service.

The patient was one of the passengers on the British Airways’ flight that landed on March 13, 2020.

Two other cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, the report says.

According to the newspaper, a medical doctor who confirmed the cases, disclosed that the three patients had been moved to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital.

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