Coronavirus: Complete Coronavirus Countries Affected List

Coronavirus countries affected list has been obtained by Nigeria’s burgeoning online news platform, NewsOne Nigeria.

NewsOne Nigeria reports that the development is coming after the Federal Ministry of Health on Friday morning, February 28, confirmed the first case of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city.

Nigeria’s minister of health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, confirmed the case in a statement issued in the early hours of Friday, February 28, 2020, saying that the case involves an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and just returned from Milan, Italy on the 25th of February 2020.

This online news platform understands that the statement said the Italian was confirmed to be positive by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, part of the Laboratory Network of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

The Ministry of Health in Lagos State confirmed its first case of COVID-19 and reported it to the Federal Ministry of Health. The ministry, however, noted that the patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms, and is being managed at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.

It was gathered that Italian who arrived in Nigeria aboard Turkish airline on Monday, visited Lafarge in Ogun State on Tuesday. Reacting in a statement on Friday, Governor Abiodun disclosed that 28 people who had contact with the Italian victim of the disease have been identified and quarantined.

Coronavirus Countries Affected List

Below are the number of countries that have been affected by the deadly coronavirus and the number of cases.

1. China: 78,959 cases

2. Republic of Korea: 2,337 cases

3. International conveyance (Diamond Princess):705 cases

4. Italy: 647 cases

5. Iran (the Islamic Republic of Iran): 245 cases

6. Japan: 210 cases

7. Singapore: 96 cases

8. United States of America: 59 cases

9. Kuwait: 43 cases

10. Thailand: 40 cases

11. France: 38 cases

12. Bahrain: 33 cases

13. Germany: 26 cases

14. Spain: 25 cases

15. Malaysia: 24 cases

16. Australia: 23 cases

17. United Arab Emirates: 19 cases

18. United Kingdom: 16 cases

19. Viet Nam: 16 cases

20. Canada: 11 cases

21. Iraq: 7 cases

22. Sweden: 7 cases

23. Oman: 6 cases

24. Switzerland: 6 cases

25. Austria: 4 cases

26. Norway: 4 cases

27. Croatia : 3 cases

28. Greece : 3 cases

29. India :3 cases

30. Israel :3 cases

31. Philippines :3 cases

32. Finland: 2 cases

33. Lebanon:2 cases

34. Pakistan: 2 cases

35. Russian Federation: 2 cases

36. Afghanistan: 1 case

37. Algeria: 1 case

38. Belgium: 1 case

39. Brazil: 1 case

40. Cambodia :1 case

41. Denmark: 1 case

42. Egypt: 1 case

43. Estonia: 1 case

44. Georgia: 1 case

45. Nepal: 1 case

46. North Macedonia: 1 case

47. Romania: 1 case

48. Sri Lanka: 1 case

49. Lithuania: 1 case

50. Netherlands: 1 case

51. Nigeria: 1 case

52. New Zealand: 1 case

53. Belarus: 1 case