Of recently, Nigeria has recorded 139 cases of coronavirus as reviewed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control via its Twitter handle.
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It tweeted, “ Four new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria ; three in the FCT and one in Lagos .
“ As of 08:00 pm on 31st of March, there are 139 confirmed cases of COVID - 19 reported in Nigeria . Nine have been discharged with two deaths.
“ For a breakdown of cases by states in real time, Lagos currently has 82 cases, FCT- 28, Oyo - eight , Osun- five, Ogun- four , Kaduna - three, Enugu - two, Edo - two, Bauchi- two, Ekiti- one, Rivers - one , and Benue – one .”
Nigeria recorded its first coronavirus case on February 27 when an Italian businessman, who was on a visit to Lafarge Africa Plc , Ewekoro , Ogun State, was diagnosed with the disease . The Italian had recently been discharged .
Following the increasing cases of the virus, Nigeria ’ s President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd .), ordered a shutdown of Lagos , Abuja and Ogun State .