COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria

COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria
Confirmed cases
Confirmed deaths
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Nigeria
First outbreak	Milan, Italy
Index case	Lagos
Arrival date	27 February 2020 (4 years, 8 months, 1 week and 4 days ago)
Confirmed cases	4,971
Recovered	1,070
Deaths	164
Government website
covid19.ncdc.gov.ng

The first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria was announced on February 27 2020, when an Italian citizen in Lagos tested positive for the virus SARS-CoV-2.^[1][2]

On March 9, 2020, a second case of the virus was reported in Ewekoro, Ogun State, in a Nigerian citizen who had contact with the Italian citizen.^[3]

On March 23, there were ten new cases: six in Lagos State, three in the FCT and one in Edo State.^[4] They also confirmed their first death, a 67-year-old Suleiman Achimugu.^[5][6]

1. ↑ "FIRST CASE OF CORONA VIRUS DISEASE CONFIRMED IN NIGERIA". Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
2. ↑ Maclean, Ruth; Dahir, Abdi Latif (28 February 2020). "Nigeria Responds to First Coronavirus Case in Sub-Saharan Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
3. ↑ "Nigeria records second case of Coronavirus". P.M. News. 9 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
4. ↑ Onyedika-Ugoeze, Nkechi (23 March 2020). "Nigeria's coronavirus cases now 40". The Guardian Newspaper. Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
5. ↑ "Achimugu, ex-PPMC boss identified as Nigeria's first coronavirus death". P.M. News. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
6. ↑ Emorinken, Moses (23 March 2020). "COVID-19: UPDATED: First death recorded as confirmed cases rise to 36". The Nation Newspaper. Retrieved 23 March 2020.