A second patient of the Coronavirus Disease in Nigeria has died.
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this on Monday during the news briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.
Ehanire said: “Till date, three persons have been discharged after successful treatment.
“But sadly, another fatality was recorded over the weekend in the person of a patient who had severe underlying illnesses.
“We have intensified contact tracing and our strategy remains to promptly detect cases, isolate them, and follow up with their contacts and also isolate and treat in order to reduce the spread of the infection.
“As of today, the 30th of March, 2020, we have recorded 111 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria, of which 68 are in Lagos, 21 in the FCT, seven in Oyo, three in Ogun, two in Bauchi, two in Edo, two in Osun, two in Enugu, and one each in Benue, Ekiti, Kaduna and Rivers States.”
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