Lagos State Government has announced the passing of a 36-year-old Nigerian who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the state.
Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said on Twitter on Sunday that it was the death of second COVID-19 patient recorded in the state.
“We lost a #COVID19 patient; a 36-year-old Nigerian, male, who died in a private facility on April 4, 2020,” he said.
“The total number of #COVID19 patients who have died are now two.”
Abayomi, however, did not disclose further information about the patient’s medical history.
He added that one of the state’s COVID-19 patients had been evacuated, making it two COVID-19 patients evacuated from Nigeria to their country.
The commissioner disclosed that one COVID-19 patient was discharged on April 4, bringing the number of COVID-19 patients who had fully recovered and discharged from the state’s facility to 24.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had earlier confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 in Lagos, Abuja and Edo.
Out of the 10 new cases, Lagos has six, while Abuja and Edo have two cases each, bringing Nigeria’s confirmed COVID-19 cases to 224.
