BREAKING: Four New Cases Of COVID-19 Confirmed In Lagos, Health Commissioner Reveals

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Just this afternoon, the Lagos Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has confirmed four new cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lagos.

Professor Akin confirmed the new cases during a press briefing on Thursday, disclosing that there is currently a total of 12 cases in the country.

According to the Health commissioner, of the 19 people were tested on Wednesday, four tested positive and had been isolated for treatment at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.

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.

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According to him, the second new case was a female who returned from France on of March 14 on a Turkish airline TK 1830.

Speaking further, he said the third case was a Nigerian male in his 50s who had not travelled anywhere, but was tested positive to the disease, whereas the 4th new case, according to him was a Nigerian male who arrived in the country on March 13, from Frankfurt to Lagos on Lufthansa airline, flight number LH568.

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Hear him: “we have a combination of imported cases and local transmission. The Executive of Lagos State is meeting on the next stage of social distancing, he added, maintaining that more tests were still being conducted.

“The best way to slow the rate is to halt the movement of the virus from person to person,” he said, as 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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