Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has disclosed that a driver with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), who transports test samples for the agency in the state and Abuja has been infected with the coronavirus disease.
He made the disclosure during an expanded state security meeting on Tuesday in Government House, Lafia.
He said, “The NCDC driver is residing in Ado town in Karu Local Government Area of the state. He was declared positive this morning and he has been moved to the isolation centre at the Federal Medical Centre, Keffi for treatment.”
Almost 100 coronavirus-related deaths have now been recorded in Nigeria, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, which confirmed 245 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday.
According to the report by the NCDC, 93 deaths have been recorded and 417 patients treated and discharged from a total confirmed cases of 2,802 recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to a post on the official Twitter handle of the agency, laboratory tests confirmed 245 new cases of coronavirus infections on Monday.
The new cases were confirmed in epicentre of the virus, Lagos and 15 other states, including the FCT.
The breakdown of the new cases are Lagos-76, Katsina-37, Kano-23, FCT-19, Jigawa-32, Borno-18, Edo-10, Bauchi-9, Adamawa-6, Oyo-5, Ogun-5, Ekiti-1, Osun-1, Benue-1, Niger-1, and Zamfara-1.
More than a quarter of a million people have died from the novel coronavirus worldwide, with over 85 percent of them in Europe and the United States, according to an AFP tally of official figures.
At 2230 GMT on Monday, the US had recorded 68,689 virus deaths, the most for any single country, while Europe was the hardest-hit continent with 145,023 confirmed fatalities.
