Coronavirus: 4 new states record index cases in 24 hours
Barely three months after the COVID-19 index case was confirmed in Lagos, the infectious disease has now spread to 33 states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Despite movement restrictions put in place by the federal and state governments, the disease is fastly spreading to all the states of the federation.
Within the last 24 hours, available data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) indicates that COVID-19 has just spread to four new states. The states are:
1. Ebonyi
2. Bayelsa
3. Kebbi
4. Taraba
The NCDC stated in its COVID-19 highlights published on Sunday, April 26: "On the 26th of April 2020, 91 new confirmed cases and five new deaths were recorded in Nigeria
"Four new states (Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Kebbi and Taraba) have reported confirmed cases in the last 24 hours.
"Till date, 1273 cases have been confirmed, 239 cases have been discharged and 40 deaths have been recorded in 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory
"The 91 new cases are reported from sixteen states- Lagos (43), Sokoto (8), Taraba (6), Kaduna(5), Gombe (5), Ondo (3), FCT (3), Edo (3), Oyo (3), Rivers (3), Bauchi (3), Osun (2), Akwa Ibom (1), Bayelsa (1), Ebonyi (1), Kebbi (1).
"A multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, continues to coordinate the national response activities."
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See the full list of the 33 states and the number of their recorded cases as at Sunday night, April 26, below:
- Lagos – 731
- Abuja FCT - 141
- Kano - 77
- Ogun - 35
- Gombe - 35
- Osun - 34
- Katsina - 30
- Borno - 30
- Edo - 25
- Oyo - 21
- Akwa Ibom - 12
- Kaduna - 15
- Bauchi - 14
- Sokoto - 10
- Kwara - 11
- Ekiti - 8
- Ondo - 8
- Delta - 6
- Rivers - 6
- Taraba - 6
- Abia - 2
- Enugu - 2
- Niger - 2
- Jigawa - 2
- Zamfara – 2
- Benue - 1
- Anambra - 1
- Adamawa -
- Plateau - 1
- Imo - 1
- Bayelsa - 1
- Ebonyi - 1
- Kebbi - 1
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Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Chikwe Ihekweazu, the director-general of the NCDC, said every Nigerian state will have their share of the coronavirus pandemic.
Ihekweazu stressed that though the federal government was making efforts to further curb the spread of the virus, it has been a tough task.
In another report, the NCDC chief also disclosed that 90% of COVID-19 patients recover without any intervention.
Ihekweazu made this known at the media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 on Wednesday, April 8.
Legit.ng gathered that the NCDC boss was reacting to a question on how the governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde, recovered from the virus in less than one week.
He said what a COVID-19 patient usually requires is support for the body to recover by itself.
He said: “We should remember that 90 per cent of these patients recover without any intervention. So, if you take something and say you recovered and that something is why you recovered, it doesn’t quite add up."
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