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A report made this morning according to the National Centre for Disease Control, Abuja has it that as at 10:35 a.m today, 23rd March, 2020, Nigeria has 5 new confirmed cases reported and recorded its first death from coronavirus. The following is the breakdown of the total confirmed cases, active cases, total already discharged and total number of death. Total confirmed cases: 36 Active cases: 33 Total discharged: 2 Total deaths: 1 The first Covid-19 death in Nigeria was a 67 year old male who returned home from the United Kingdom after a medical treatment. He was known to have suffered from underlying medical conditions of multiple myeloma and diabetes and was undergoing chemotherapy. We hereby share our condolence with the bereaved family.  Please disregard messages that are not signed by official sources as voice notes, broadcast messages and images are being shared on Whatsapp and other platforms with fake news.

It is a known fact that the recent outbreak of the pandemic disease, Coronavirus also referred to as COVID-19 has attacked many countries in the world. According to worldometers, a total of 168,866 cases of Coronavirus has been reported of which 6,492 are reported dead and 76,598 have recovered. While China is known to top the list as total reported cases tolls 80,874 with 3,209 deaths and 2,335 recovered, there were only two reported cases in Nigeria so far of which one has been reported to test negative. In Ghana, there have been 10 reported cases and no casualty reported yet. Some of the countries and their total reported death cases due to coronavirus attack are listed below: China - 3,209 Italy - 2177 Iran - 837 S/Korea - 78 Spain - 388 Germany - 13 France - 163 USA - 69 For the full list of total reported cases by country, total deaths and total recovered, see here