The Lagos State Ministry of Health has confirmed four new cases of COVID-19.
The announcement was made on Thursday by the Commissioner of Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi.
On Wednesday, the Federal Ministry of Health announced five new cases including a 6-week old baby and her mother.
The latest additions to a positive Corona Virus status brings to 12 the number of cases confirmed after it had just two cases for over 2 weeks.
One of the first two cases has since tested negative with the index case, an Italian believed to be on his way to testing negative too.
Nigeria was the first country in SubSaharan Africa to announce a Coronavirus case.
Abayomi in the briefing on Thursday said 19 people were tested with four of them testing positive.
He said the first of the four new cases who tested positive to the disease was a woman who had contact with the woman who came from UK some days ago who was tested positive.
According to him, the second new case was a female who returned from France on 14th of March on a Turkish airline TK 1830.
The third case was a Nigerian male in his 50s who had not travelled anywhere, but was tested positive to the disease.
Abayomi further revealed that the 4th new case was a Nigerian male who arrived in the country on the 13th of March from Frankfurt to Lagos on Lufthansa airline, flight number LH568.
The commissioner, however, said more tests were still being carried out adding that, “we have a combination of imported cases and local transmission. The Executive of Lagos State is meeting on the next stage of social distancing.
“The best way to slow the rate is to halt the movement of the virus from person to person,” he said.
He appealed to people on the two flights to self-isolate themselves and reach the government.
“Currently, we are following over 1,300 people right now to find information about the state of their health and the number is increasing”.
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