This photo taken on January 28, 2020 shows medical staff members cheering up a patient infected by the novel coronavirus in an isolation ward at a hospital in Zouping in China’s easter Shandong province. STR / AFP
Enugu State, Southern Nigeria, has recorded its first Coronavirus case.
NewsOne Nigeria reports that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the suspected Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases as positive in a statement released on the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Friday night, March 28.
This burgeoning online news platform understands that the two new cases of Coronavirus in Enugu brings the number of cases of coronavirus in Nigeria to eighty-one (81) from its previous seventy (70).
Giving an update on the spread of the disease, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) tweeted: “11 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 8 in Lagos, 2 in Enugu & 1 in Edo State
“As at 11:55 pm 27th March, there are 81 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 3 have been discharged with 1 death.
“As at 11:55 pm 27th March, there are 81 confirmed cases, 3 discharged, 1 death. For a breakdown of cases by states in real-time, please see http://covid19.ncdc.gov.ng.
“Currently; Lagos- 52, FCT- 14, Ogun- 3, Ekiti- 1, Oyo- 3, Edo- 2, Bauchi- 2, Osun-1 Rivers-1, Enugu- 2,” the tweet added.
Meanwhile, coronavirus in Enugu was recorded on the day Prophet TB Joshua said the pandemic would end.
Newsone Nigeria recalls that Prophet TB Joshua, the founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) had revealed during a church sermon last month, that the pandemic will be over by the end of March.
“This month, 27th, it will be over, by the end of this month, whether we like it or not, no matter the medicine they have produced to cure whatever, it will go the way it came,” the cleric had said.