Twitter users have taken to the platform to call out Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu after the state recorded its first two coronavirus cases, despite the governor’s remark that the deadly virus cannot be recorded in Abia.
Abia State has recorded two new cases, NCDC announced on Twitter. These are the first cases recorded in the South-Eastern state since the outbreak began.
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control confirmed the cases on Monday, April 20, tweeting:
Thirty-eight new cases of #COVID19 have been reported;
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23 in Kano
5 in Gombe
3 in Kaduna
2 in Borno
2 in Abia
1 in FCT
1 in Sokoto
1 in Ekiti
As at 11:10 pm 20th April there are 665 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.
Discharged: 188
Deaths: 22
With two new cases in the state, Twitter users were all too ready to call him out.
However, Nigeria has recorded 86 new coronavirus cases – the highest daily figure, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 627.
Nigeria records 86 new cases of coronavirus, three deaths. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in a tweet on Sunday.
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The agency wrote on Twitter;
“Eighty-six new cases of coronavirus have been reported; 70 in Lagos, seven in FCT, three in Katsina, three in Akwa Ibom, one in Jigawa, one in Bauchi and one in Borno.
“As at 11:50pm April 19, there are 627 confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in Nigeria. Discharged: 170, deaths: 21.”
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