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BREAKING: 36-year-old man dies of coronavirus in Lagos
A 36-year-old man has died of coronavirus at a private health facility in Lagos state, the state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi announced this on Sunday.
This makes it the second death in Lagos state.
The 55-year-old man who died on Friday, April 2 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, was the first coronavirus-related death recorded in Lagos.
The health commissioner, who also confirmed that Lagos had recorded six new COVID-19 cases, said another coronavirus patient had been evacuated from the state.
He tweeted, “We lost a COVID-19 patient – a 36-year-old Nigerian male who died in a private facility on the 4th of April, 2020. (The) total number of #COVID-19 patients who have died are now two.
“A case was evacuated bringing total evacuated to two.
“Six new cases of #COVID-19 confirmed, bringing total confirmed cases to 115. A #COVID-19 patient was discharged on the 4th of April, 2020. The number of #COVID-19 patients, who have fully recovered and discharged is now 24.”
Abayomi’s confirmation came a few hours after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday announced that the country had recorded one more death and two discharges.
Onyxnews Nigeria reported he NCDC earlier announced ten new cases of COVID-19 in Lagos, Abuja and Edo State. The new cases brought Nigeria’s recorded COVID-19 cases to 224.
Twenty-seven of the cases had recovered and discharged while five have been recorded dead.
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