15th April covid-19 report as at 11:20 pm shows that Nigeria now has a total of 407 confirmed infections.
34 new infections came up today. The development makes government and well-meaning Nigerians uncomfortable. This is because it is now obvious that community transmission of the contagious and deadly disease has begun.
In other countries, when community transmission begins, it becomes somewhat more difficult to manage the spread.
Highlights of #COVID19 total figures:
- Discharged: 128
- Deaths: 12
- Active: 267
- Total confirmed cases since breakout: 407
Breakdown of new infections by states:
- Lagos: 18
- Kano: 12
- Katsina: 2
- Delta: 1
- Niger: 1
Lagos State 15th April covid-19 update:
The governor announced some good results in Lagos today in his daily briefing…
“Good people of Lagos,
I have more great news from our isolation facilities. 16 persons; 14 males and 2 females including 3 foreigners – 1 British, 1 Chinese and 1 Polish have been discharged to join the society.
The patients; 14 from IDH, Yaba and 2 from Onikan Isolation centre have fully recovered and tested negative twice consecutively to #COVID19.
This brings the number of patients successfully managed and discharged from our facilities to 86.
As our frontline health workers records successes in the battle against covid-19, we are duty bound as citizens to break the chain of transmission of the infection by staying at home, practice social distancing and adopt highest possible personal hygiene.
We will continue to do our best as a government to cushion the effect of this lockdown by re-energising our welfare package. Please keep having faith in us as we win this battle together.
Thank you all for your continued perseverance and patience.
15th April Worldwide COVID19 figures:
- Total infections since disease breakout: 2,077,839
- Deaths: 134,375
- Recovered: 509,853
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