It is now more than six months since Nigeria reported its index case of Coronavirus Disease. On March 23, the country closed its airports to all international flights and commercial operations, for a month, in the first instance, with the exception of emergency and essential flights. Previously, in August 2019, the country had shut down its land borders in an attempt to check smuggling. With COVID-19, those borders remained closed. On March 30, 2020, at 11 pm, Nigeria began the first phase of its COVID lockdown – initially for a period of 14 days in Lagos and Ogun States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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The NCDC made this known on its official Twitter handle on Monday.
The centre in its latest situation update issued on Wednesday said the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the continent rose from 594,841 on Tuesday morning to 612,586 as of Wednesday morning.
The update said the health authorities had treated and discharged 619 more people, bringing the number of recovered cases to 19,831, while the number of deaths stood at 135.
The UN health agency gave the update on its regional official Twitter account: @WHOAFRO.
The number of confirmed infected persons who have recovered increased to 14,330, with 284 more recoveries, while the death toll remains at 117 at the latest count.
The UN health agency gave the update on its official twitter account on Tuesday.
Scotland and Northern Ireland earlier reported no COVID-19 deaths in the previous 24 hours.
New Zealand’s combined total number of confirmed and probable cases stays at 1,504, of which 1,154 are confirmed, it said.
The Health Ministry said the total number of people who have died of the new coronavirus in Brazil has risen to 27,787.
WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo gave the update on its official Twitter account: @WHOAFRO.
The World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo says the number of Coronavirus cases in Africa has increased to over 11,900.