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.
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