The federal government has approved the postponement of the 2020 National Sports Festival, Edo 2020, in a bid to avoid Coronavirus (COVID-19) spread in the country.
This was made known on Tuesday by the Minister of sports, Sunday Dare, through his verified twitter handle.
Dare said President Muhammadu Buhari approved the postponement of the Festival as a precautionary measure against COVID 19 spread.
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The postponement is coming four days to the commencement of the sports festival.
Meanwhile, Nigeria has confirmed its third case of the novel coronavirus. The Lagos State Ministry of Health, which confirmed the case, said the patient is unconnected with the index case.
The infected, a 30-year-old Nigerian female who returned from the United Kingdom on Friday, observed self-isolation, developed symptoms and tested positive.
She is receiving care at Mainland General Hospital.
However, Nigeria recorded its first case of the coronavirus on February 27, 2020, an Italian man who flew into the country after a stopover in Turkey.
He proceeded to Ogun State from Lagos for business, developed symptoms of the disease and was isolated at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Lagos afterwards.
The government says he’s in stable condition and that his fellow passengers on the Turkish Airline flight have all tested negative for the virus.
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Another case of the virus was recorded in Nigeria a week later, from a Nigerian who had made contact with the Italian. However, the government announced that this case has tested negative and has recovered.
There are now 183, 809 cases of the deadly coronavirus globally.
7,178 people have died from the infection, while 79, 911 have recovered from the disease. Every continent in the world has now recorded a coronavirus case, aside Antarctica. 27 African nations are now treating patients with coronavirus.
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