20-yr-old woman tests positive to COVID-19 in Plateau

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed a new coronavirus case in Plateau state.

The case is a woman, aged 20, who escaped from Kano during the just relaxed lockdown in the state, it was learnt.

She was according to sources, arrested and isolated for testing on Wednesday after she attended a wedding in Mangu Local Government Area and retired to her home village near Pankshin Local Government Area.

Her test result with laboratory number NVRI-COV-137 and epistemology number NIE-PLS-JJN-20-004 came out positive on Thursday, shortly after the state Governor, Simon Lalong announced a resumption of the lockdown.

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Her result along with 78 new cases in Lagos, 14 in FCT, five in Ogun, four in Gombe, three in Borno, two in Akwa Ibom and one in Kwara as confirmed by the NCDC raises Nigeria’s confirmed cases by 108.

This brought the total confirmed cases in Nigeria to 981 as of 11:59pm, Thursday, from 873 the previous day.