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

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.

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.

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.