BREAKING: Lagos Records Three New Cases Of Coronavirus, Oyo One

Three new cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed in Lagos on Sunday morning, World Health Organisation and Nigeria’s centre for disease control said.

Three persons who tested positive had a history of travelling to high-risk countries in the last seven days.

With the new confirmations, Lagos has now recorded 21 cases of the virus out of the 25 confirmed in Nigeria. But two persons on that list have been discharged after attaining full recovery.

Nigeria’s capital city Abuja has three cases, Ogun and Ekiti states have two and one respectively. Oyo State governor Seyi Makinde also announced that a case has been recorded in the state. But his announcement was not part of the official figure released by the NCDC on Sunday morning, according to The Guardian.

But a statement by Oyo State Ministry of Health task force on COVID-19 obtained by BIGPEN Sunday morning indicates, the COVID-19 confirmation test for the suspected case at Bodija came back POSITIVE.

According to the statement, the result was released at 17:35 PM of March 21, 2020. The Oyo State Public Health Officials are collaborating with the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan’s team on the case.

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“A follow up on the Ekiti COVID-19 case revealed that the deceased was picked up directly from Lagos Airport to a private apartment in Ona Ara Local Government Area.

“The Health Authorities have contacted the family concerned and the community has been alerted for intensified contact tracing and self-isolation of identified close contacts.

“The information given that he stayed in some hotels in Ibadan has been found to be false.

“Another returnee from Texas, USA, has also been identified at Oluyole Local Government Area. She has been kept in self-isolation with close monitoring by the State Epidemiological Team. All recent returnees are again urged to identify themselves to Ministry Officials and self-isolate for 14 days”, the statement further said.