Nigeria: Another 14 fresh cases of COVID-19 confirmed

Another fourteen new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Nigeria, bringing the total number of cases to 65, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced in a tweet on Thursday night.

According to the breakdown of the number of the additional cases,  12 new cases were discovered in Lagos while the remaining two were confirmed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Six of the cases were detected on a vessel and three others were returning travellers into the country while the remaining case was a close contact of a confirmed case.

The NCDC, however informed that another case had been discharged, bringing the number of persons who have recovered from the virus to three.