Read < 1minuteA vendor attends to a customer at his stall in Balogun market in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, Nigeria March 5, 2020. Picture taken March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
Nigeria’s Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire on Monday announced a second confirmed case of COVID-19 in the West African nation.
The victim had contacted an Italian national who brought coronavirus to Nigeria. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control also confirmed this in a tweet on Monday.
The country is also dealing with one of the largest epidemics of Lassa fever, a deadly disease that has caused over a hundred deaths since the beginning of the year.
