]Nigeria Records Five New Coronavirus Cases In 36 Hours

Nigeria Records Five New Coronavirus Cases In 36 Hours

The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria within the last 36 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to eight.

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who made this known in a press briefing on Wednesday in Abuja said that: “Of the five new positive cases, three arrived from the United States, while two came in from the United Kingdom.

“We are still collating information on the travellers; two of the three from the US are Nigerians, a mother and child, making the six weeks old baby the youngest COVID-19 patient we have and the third is an American national, who crossed the land border and became the first COVID-19 case not arriving by air.

“The 2 cases from the UK are Nigerian.”