BY:
Godday O. Aghedo, AMIIM
INTRODUCTION
Nigeria recorded her first index case of the 2019 novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on February 27th, 2020, in Lagos State. Exactly a month after, on March 28th, 2020 the number of confirmed cases rose to 97 across 12 states: Lagos, Osun, Ogun, Edo, Kaduna, Oyo, Ekiti, Bauchi, Rivers, Benue and Enugu and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); with 3 discharges and 1 death. In just about a week later, precisely on April 5th, 2020, the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria has skyrocketed to 232 across 14 states: Lagos, Osun, Ogun, Edo, Kaduna, Oyo, Ekiti, Bauchi, Rivers, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Ondo and the FCT, with 33 discharges and 5 deaths. Lagos State remains the epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, caring for 51.7% of the total confirmed cases, followed by the FCT at 20.3% and Osun state at 8.9%. So far, 14% of total confirmed cases have been discharged and the case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 2%, lower than the global CFR which is 5% as at April 5th, 2020. READ MORE!
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