BREAKING: Five New Cases Of Coronavirus Detected In Nigeria

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Five new cases of novel coronavirus, Covid-19, have been detected in Nigeria.

 

The Federal Ministry of Health made this announcement on Wednesday, March 17, according to the PUNCH report.

The report also claimed that these new cases had travel history with the United States and the United Kingdom.

 

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The Federal Government has issued a travel ban on 13 countries over the spread of the deadly coronavirus as a precautionary measure.

 

This was announced by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha at a media briefing on Wednesday.

 

He said those who arrived into the country in the last 15 days from the 13 countries, would be subjected to supervised 14 days self-isolation.

 

Mustapha, who was accompanied by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehinare, explained that the ban on the 13 countries became necessary because of their high-risk status in terms of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

According to him, the ban on the 13 countries would take effect from Saturday, March 21, 2020, adding that the Visa-on-Arrival policy had been temporarily suspended.

 

He said: “This morning, we have found it necessary to brief Nigerians on further measures being taken after an assessment of the global situation. They are as follows:

 

“The Federal Government of Nigeria is restricting entry into the country for travellers from the following thirteen (13) countries; China, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Japan, France, Germany, Norway, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Switzerland. These are all countries with over 1,000 case domestically.

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