Ibrahim Farinloye, the Territorial Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, confirmed the figure to newsmen in Lagos.
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred when a canoe, conveying 13 passengers on their way to a condolence visit, capsized after hitting an object.
Francis Gomado, the spokesman for the Police in the Eastern region, said the death toll stood at 14 as of late Wednesday but went up again with four more bodies recovered early Thursday.
The total number of recoveries from COVID-19 in Morocco as of Wednesday increased to 118,142 after 2,788 new ones were added, the ministry of health said in a statement.
Poor farmers and workers fell ill after drinking the alcohol across three districts, and the first deaths were reported last Wednesday.
The General Manager of LASWA, Oluwadamilola Emmanuel, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, while providing an update on the incident.
Scotland and Northern Ireland earlier reported no COVID-19 deaths in the previous 24 hours.
The death toll from COVID-19 reached nearly 60,200 in the US on Wednesday, and confirmed cases surpassed 1 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll is probably higher than 27,24 1, making it one of the worst-hit countries in Europe, opposition Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, said on Wednesday as he questioned the government’s response to the outbreak.
The United Kingdom’s hospital death toll from COVID-19 rose by 847 to 14,576, as of 1600 GMT on April 16, the Health Ministry said.
US President Donald Trump says Americans are bracing for probably the toughest week during which a lot of deaths will occur due to COVID-19.
The World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo says there are now 8,596 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the African continent with 383 deaths.
Five hundred and seventy people have died in nursing homes in France’s eastern region during the coronavirus outbreak, raising the prospect of a much larger death toll linked to the illness across the country.
The National Centre for Disease Control, the Nigerian agency responsible for management of disease outbreaks, says Lassa fever death toll has increased to 161.
World Health Organisation has advised Member States to be ready for timely detection and management of any outbreak, especially coronavirus, as the death toll in China hit 56.
The Department of Petroleum Resources on Friday said a combine team of DPR, KEPA and other agencies have recovered mutilated bodies of three more victims of the January 4 Kaduna gas explosion.
The Federal Road Safety Commission on Monday said 18 persons were confirmed dead from an accident on Sunday evening on Akwanga – Nasarawa Eggon federal highway.
The death toll in flooding in Nepal has risen to at least 43 people, while 24 others have gone missing after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides across the country, officials said on Sunday.