On Friday, Nigeria announced that five new confirmed cases of coronavirus.This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 70.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on its Twitter handle said the five new cases were reported in Abuja and Oyo State.
“As at 08:00 pm 27th March there are 70 cases of confirmed #COVID19 reported Nigeria. 3 have been discharged with 1 death,” the agency tweeted.
“As at 8:00 pm 27th March, there are 70 confirmed cases, 3 discharge and 1 death.”
Meanwhile, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that curfew may be imposed in the state with the increasing cases of coronavirus. He said this during a live broadcast at the State House, Marina, on Friday evening.
He said, “We are moving to the direction of curfew, but there are indices and numbers we need to see, we haven’t seen that number yet to warrant a curfew.
“The disease is not a respecter of anybody. It doesn’t look at class, gender or race, everybody is at risk, that is why we need to obey the rules and regulations set for ourselves.”
In all, Lagos still has the highest number of confirmed cases with 44, FCT(Abuja) – 14, Ogun- 3, Oyo – 3, Bauchi-2 while Ekiti, Edo, Osun and Rivers have one case each.
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