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UPDATED: BREAKING:15 On-board Ship Off Nigeria’s Coast Test Positive For Coronavirus

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Out of the 81 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Lagos state, 66 are from foreigners and Nigeria’s returnees particularly crew members of a Ship off Nigeria’s coast.

BIGPEN understands that of the 66 cases from which Lagos recorded some local transmission of the infection, 15 cases were from a vessel that was manauvering off the coast of Lagos.

The ship which belonged to an undisclosed oil and gas company was quarantined after its tested positive to coronavirus with 7 earlier tested positive and additional 8 persons on-board also testing positive.

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Sources disclosed that a Polish and a Ukrainian nationals were suspected to be among the 51 crew members of the ship.

“As at 30th March, 2020, we have 81 confirmed cases in Lagos; 66 imported & local transmission & 15 cases from a vessel that was manauvering of the coast of Lagos, the Commissioner incharge of Lagos State Ministry of Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, confirmed at a news briefing on Tuesday.

“We are still tracing those that came in by air and still doing in-community tracing of contacts, he said.

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The Health Commissioner further said that the state government was not relenting in its effort to break the chain of transmission of #COVID19.

Meanwhile, four additional coronavirus patients, 1 female and 4 males have been discharged by the Lagos state government, thus bringing to eight the total discharged number of #COVID19 patients successfully managed at the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba.

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