Five new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Nigeria, taking the number of such cases to 51.
According to a late Wednesday update from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), two are in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), two are in Lagos and one in Rivers State – which is the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the South South state.
The NCDC further informed in its tweet, that three of the new cases are returning travellers into Nigeria, while the remaining two are close contacts of a confirmed case
The Centre noted that two of the cases have been discharged while it has so far recorded only one death – that of 67-year-old Suleiman Achimugu, a former managing director of Pipeline and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Achimugu was reported to have been suffering from diabetes and cancer when the viral disease struck him.
