EKITI CORP MEMBER TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS
The Ekiti Corp Member tested positive for Coronavirus is a foreign Prospective Corp Members who came from United kingdom to the orientation camp ground in Ekiti.
The Federal Ministry of Health has announced five new cases of coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to eight.
All the five new cases had a travel history to the United Kingdom and the United States. Three of the new cases arrived from the US while the other two arrived from the UK.
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However, `Four of the cases were Nigerians including a six-week-old baby while the fifth was a foreign national who came in through the land border.
This is the first recorded case of the infection through Nigeria’s land borders and Of the five new cases, one is in Ekiti State and its said to be a foreign PCM who came from UK and the other four in Lagos State.
Here are the Coronavirus cases in Africa
- Algeria – 72
- Benin – 2
- B. Faso – 20
- Cameroon – 10
- Djibouti – 1
- Egypt – 196
- E.Guinea – 4
- Eswatini – 1
- Ethiopia – 6
- Gabon – 3
- Gambia – 1
- Ghana – 7
- Guinea – 1
- Kenya -7
- Liberia – 2
- Morocco – 49
- Namibia – 2
- Nigeria – 8
- Rwanda – 8
- Senegal – 31
- Seychelles – 4
- Somalia – 1
- South Africa – 116
- Sudan – 2
- Tanzania -3
- Togo – 1
- Tunisia – 29
- Zambia – 2
New Coronavirus Cases in Africa on March 18
- South Africa – 31
- Algeria – 11
- Nigeria – 5
- Morocco – 5
- Kenya – 3
- Burkina Faso – 5 (including 1 Death)
- Tunisia – 2
- Tanzania – 2
- Ivory Coast – 2
- Sudan – 1
- Nigeria records has the highest case in a day
