Four new Cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Lagos

Chinenye Ogbonna March 19, 2020

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The Lagos Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has confirmed four new cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lagos, with this, there are now a total of 12 cases in the country.

The new cases were confirmed at a briefing on Thursday. This comes barely one day after the Federal Ministry of Health confirmed five new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, confirming the news at a press briefing on Wednesday in Abuja, explained that out of the five new cases, three arrived from the United States while two came from the United Kingdom.

“We are still collating information on the travellers; two out of the three from the US are Nigerian, a mother and a 6-week old baby which makes it the youngest COVID-19 patient we have.

“The third is an American national, who crossed the land border to become the first COVID-19 case not arriving by air. The two cases from the UK are Nigerians“, he said