BREAKING: Coronavirus increases in Nigeria, check total number of cases after Chinese medical team arrived

Just after the arrival of Chinese medical team to Nigeria, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 22 new cases of coronavirus.

The Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this development on Wednesday evening in its micro-blogging, Twitter.

It said: “Twenty-two new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 15 in Lagos, 4 in the FCT, 2 in Bauchi, 1 in Edo.”
“As at 09:00pm 8th April there are 276 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Fourty-four have been discharged with six deaths,” NCDC said.

This takes the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 276.

More cases of coronavirus confirmed after Chinese medical personnel arrived Nigeria.

Prior to this development, Chinese medical personnel sent to assist Nigeria in fighting the deadly coronavirus arrived the country.

The medical team came into the West Africa country around 5pm on Wednesday. And they were received by a delegation of the federal government and officials of the Chinese embassy. The doctors and nurses numbering about 15 arrived with some medical products.

Meanwhile, Minister of health, Osagie Enahire, said the doctors were coming with the donated medical items to support the Nigeria’s fight against COVID-19.

He had said the items brought are personal protective equipment and ventilators.

“I have been notified of medical supplies from China, courtesy of a group of Chinese companies working here in Nigeria,” he had said.

The minister added that, “An 18-man team of Chinese medical experts including doctors, nurses and other medical advisers shall come along with the flight to assist us. I must at this juncture commend our frontline workers who are doing a great job in case identification and management.”

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) was against the Chinese doctors coming to Nigeria, asking the federal government to rather empower Nigerian medical practitioners to perform better.

The government, however, said it could not reject the offer of China to help Nigeria in such a challenging time.

But the Nigerian doctors were assured that their Chinese counterparts would be subjected to the laws of the land and would not have access to patients being treated for coronavirus in the country.