The COVID-19 cases in Nigeria increased to 190 on Thursday.
On Wednesday the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control [NCDC] said the cases were 174.
On Thursday, it said seven cases were recorded in Lagos and three in the FCT. The agency was, however, silent on the six Cote d’Ivoire that Osun State Government earlier on Thursday said tested positive.
With the latest cases, Lagos now has 98 cases; the FCT, 38, Osun, 20, Kaduna, four; Oyo, eight, Enugu, two, Edo, four, Bauchi, three, Ekiti, two, Akwa Ibom, five and Ogun, four.
Rivers and Benue have one case each.
20 patients have been discharged with two deaths recorded.
It would be recalled that the Osun State Government on Thursday confirmed that six more Cote d’Ivoire returnees tested positive for coronavirus. With the latest cases, the state now has 20 COVID-19 cases.
The Osun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Rafiu Isamotu, said that all the 127 returnees had been tested and 18 of them had returned positive.
All the 18 coronavirus cases were said to have been moved out of the isolation centre to another facility. Before 18 cases were recorded, the state had two COVID-19 patients.
The 127 travellers from the West African nation had arrived the state last Saturday and were kept in isolation at the Unity High School, Ejigbo, where many of the returnees hailed from.
