The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria within the last 36 hours.
This brings to eight the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria.
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, made this known at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.
He said: “Of the 5 new positive cases, 3 arrived from the United States, while 2 came in from the United Kingdom. We are still collating information on the travellers; 2 of the 3 from the US are Nigerians, a mother and child, making the 6 weeks old baby the youngest COVID-19 patient we have , and the 3rd is an American national, who crossed the land border and became the first COVID-19 case not arriving by air.
“The 2 cases from the UK are Nigerian.”
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