Nigeria’s coronavirus death toll increased has increased to six, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on Tuesday.
The NCDC, in its daily update on the COVID-19 pandemic, said the countries confirmed cases rose to 254 from 238.
It added that Delta and Katsina recorded their first cases with one each. The Katsina case had earlier been announced by the state governor, Aminu Bello Masari.
The case was identified as Dr Aminu Yakubu, a Daura-based doctor, who died three days after returning to the state from Lagos.
A laboratory test confirmed that he was infected and that he also had underlying illnesses such as hepatitis and hypertension.
The private medical practitioner is the sixth person in Nigeria who has died after testing positive for coronavirus.
10 new cases were recorded in Lagos, while two new cases have been recorded in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, and two in Oyo State.
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State had earlier announced that the two cases are one 28-year-old woman who returned to the country from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in March, and a 42-year-old man who is a contact of an earlier confirmed case.
The new cases have raised Nigeria’s total number of confirmed coronavirus cases to 254 in Lagos (130), FCT (50), Osun (20), Oyo (11), Edo (11), Bauchi (6), Akwa Ibom (5), Kaduna (5), Ogun (4), Enugu (2), Ekiti (2), Rivers (2), Kwara (2), Benue (1), Ondo (1), Delta (1), and Katsina (1).
