COVID-19: Nigeria adds 265 fresh cases

AN additional 265 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded across the country on Saturday with Lagos State alone recording 133.

All 215 Nigerians who recently returned by special flight from the United Kingdom were let home from isolation after testing negative to the coronavirus.

Forty-five other patients were discharged on Saturday in Lagos while health workers in Kaduna State embarked on a seven-day warning strike despite threat of sack by Governor Nasir El-Rufai.

A breakdown of the new cases released at 11.51 yesterday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is as follows: 133-Lagos; 34-Oyo; 28-Edo; 23-Ogun; 22-FCT; 6-Plateau; 5-Kaduna; 3-Borno; 3-Niger; 2-Kwara; 2-Bauchi; 2-Anambra and 2-Enugu.

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The NCDC has recorded a total of 7526 cases since the first case.

Two thousand, one hundred and seventy four cases have been discharged while 221 have died.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State in an update yesterday said 45 fully recovered patients made up of 22 females and 23 males were discharged.

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Nineteen of them were released from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, 3 from Onikan, 8 from Agidingbi, 7 from Lekki, 1 from Eti-Osa (LandMark) and 7 from Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Isolation Centres after testing negative.

He said that with this, number of patients successfully managed and discharged from our Isolation facilities has risen to 707.

In Abuja, the NCDC discharged all 215 Nigerian who recently returned home from the UK after completing over two weeks in isolation.

All the returnees, according to the clearance certificate, tested Negative to the Coronavirus.

They were subsequently discharged.

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