Nigeria Has Confirmed A Third Case Of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Disease

Nigeria recorded its first case of the coronavirus on February 27, 2020, an Italian man who flew into the country after a stopover in Turkey. Reports from Nigeria today confirms a third case of the pandemic Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease.

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This news was firstly hinted by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) shared the following news on their popular microblogging platform, Twitter today:

“The Hon. Minister, Osagie Ehanire, has announced the 3rd case of #COVID19 in Nigeria.

“The case is a Nigerian who returned to Lagos from the UK and developed symptoms during her 14-day self-isolation.

“She is clinically stable and is being treated at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Lagos.”

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The Lagos State Health Ministry says this new case is independent of the index case as a 30-year-old Nigerian female returned from the UK on March 13, observed self-isolation and later showed symptoms.

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