“Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases have surpassed 40,000 mark after the nation recorded 555 fresh cases of the virus on Sunday. According to figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Nigeria now has 40,532 confirmed cases.”
“Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases have surpassed thirty thousand cases in new figures published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.”
“Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, said on Saturday that 24 medical officers in the state, had tested positive to coronavirus. Mohammed made the disclosure at a news conference in Bauchi. He, however, noted no death had been recorded among the affected medical workers.”
“Kano has extended its lockdown by a week to contain the spread of coronavirus in the state. Malam Muhammad Garba, the Commissioner for Information in the state, announced this on behalf of the government.”
“Confirmed Coronavirus infections in Africa’s largest mega city, Lagos has reached 731 with 43 new cases reported on Sunday. Lagos’s total figures of 731 is more than half of the total National Coronavirus infections put at 1,273. On Sunday, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced 43 new infections for the State, a rise from the 33 cases it ramp up on Saturday.”
“The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has unanimously agreed to the implementation of an inter-state lockdown in the country over the next two weeks to mitigate spread of the virus from state to state. A limited lockdown of Lagos, Ogun and the FCT will expire next Monday… In a communique issued at the end of the 6th videoconference, the governors also called for the decentralisation of COVID-19 response as the best chance of nipping the spread of the virus in communities in the country.”
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