The Lagos State Government has announced that a 36-year-old man died of coronavirus in the state.
The Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, took to his Twitter handle on Sunday to make the announcement.
According to him, the Nigerian died on Saturday in a private facility. He also confirmed the death as the second coronavirus death recorded in Lagos.
A 55-year-old man who died on Friday, April 2 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi-Araba, was the first coronavirus-related death recorded in Lagos state.
Furthermore, Abayomi confirmed that Lagos had recorded six new cases of coronavirus while noting that another coronavirus patient had been evacuated from the state.
“We lost a COVID-19 patient – a 36-year-old Nigerian male who died in a private facility on the 4th of April, 2020. (The) total number of #COVID-19 patients who have died are now two,” He tweeted.
“A case was evacuated bringing total evacuated to two.
“Six new cases of #COVID-19 confirmed, bringing total confirmed cases to 115. A #COVID-19 patient was discharged on the 4th of April, 2020.
The number of #COVID-19 patients, who have fully recovered and discharged is now 24.”
Naijahomebased reports that the NCDC earlier announced 10 fresh cases of COVID-19 in the country. This brings the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 224.
Of the 10 new cases, Lagos has six, while Abuja and Edo have two cases each.
