Yemisi Izuora
Nigeria has recorded two new deaths from Coronavirus yesterday, thus bringing the total death so far in the country to four.
The number of confirmed cases have also risen to 210.
The deaths, according to a tweet from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, last night, were recorded in Lagos and Edo states.
The NCDC tweeted: “Two new deaths have been recorded in Lagos and Edo State. As at 10:30 pm, 3rd April, there are 210 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Twenty new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 11 in Lagos, 3 in the FCT, 3 in Edo, 2 in Osun & 1 in Ondo.”
Meanwhile, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, yesterday threatened that government could extend the 14-day lockdown should Lagosians and residents of Abuja and Ogun State failed to adhere strictly to lockdown directives.
The minister, who is a member of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, disclosed this in Abuja when he featured in a forum to give an update on government efforts at containing the pandemic.
He said, “If we don’t behave ourselves, there is a likelihood that the lockdown will be extended, but if we behave ourselves, there might not be an extension and I hope we do so.
“If we stay at home for two weeks and we are doing everything we are supposed to do, we should be able to effectively contain the disease.
The NCDC said the country recorded 20 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 210.
As at 10:30 pm 3rd April there are 210 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria.
A breakdown of the latest figure shows that 11 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Lagos, while three cases were confirmed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Three cases were also reported in Edo and two in Osun, while Ondo State recorded its index case of the disease.
Meanwhile, the number of people who have recovered from the disease in the country has risen to 25.
This followed the news that four people, including a mother and her baby, had been discharged from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital in Lagos.
On the sad note, the NCDC revealed that the death toll from COVID-19 in the country had doubled.
A total of four people have died from the disease, two new deaths were recorded in Lagos and Edo States.
See the case summary in Nigeria as of April 3 below:
Total Confirmed cases, 210, Discharged, 25, Death, 4