Confirmed cases of Covid 19 pandemic has risen to 184, with ten new cases
The new cases include seven from Lagos state, and three from Abuja
Nigeria centre for disease control (NCDC) released an update of the pandemic on Thursday night
Lagos state is still leading the table of confirmed cases with 90, followed by 38 from Abuja and Osun with 14 cases
Trailing them are Akwa Ibom state with five cases, Oyo (8), Ogun (four), Edo (four), Kaduna (four), Bauchi (3), Enugu (2), and Ekiti (2), while rivers and Benue states recorded one each
Meanwhile, health minister, Doctor Osagie Ehanire, has said he expects the number of confirmed cases of Covid 19 to rise dramatically, as the race to track down contacts of confirmed cases intensified
He explains that about 71 per cent out of the presumed over 6,000 contacts being tracked, had been traced
The minister, however, expresses concern that those sneaking into Nigeria through the land border, may create fresh challenges
In a related development, Osun state government has confirmed that six more of the returnees from Ivory Coast have tested positive to Covid 19
Health commissioner, Doctor isamotu, who made this known to newsmen, says this has pushed the total number of confirmed covid 19 cases in the state to 20
The commissioner explains that testing of the samples of blood of 127 returnees had been completed
Eighteen of them, according to the commissioner, had tested positive to the virus, and had been moved to the Ejigbo isolation centre for treatment.
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