Nigeria now has 81 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 after 11 new cases were confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) late Friday.
For the first time, the COVID-19 disease showed up in the country’s south-east as two cases were confirmed in Enugu state.
Lagos State, which has been described as the country’s hotspot, added eight COVID-19 cases, bringing the state’s total caseload to 52.
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One other case was recorded in Edo State.
Earlier on Friday, the NCDC had reported the discovery of five new cases, three in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and two in Oyo state. No new case was reported in Lagos.
But the last announcement on Friday further strengthens Lagos’ status as the country’s hotspot.
In total, 16 new cases were confirmed on Friday.
Meanwhile, The World Health Organisation has sent a dire warning to Nigeria to stop the spread of COVID-19 now that cases are still few.
The world body said it may be too late, too hard, or almost impossible to deal with a much bigger and wider crisis.
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According to Today’s News Africa USA, the Director-General of WHO, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, said in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday that Nigeria should seize the opportunity now that it has few cases to stop the COVID-19 virus from spreading by conducting enough testing and identifying those who test positive, isolating them and follow-up with contact tracing.
He said those early measures would prevent the disease from growing from sporadic cases to a community transmission that might become harder to contain.
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