UI team predicts 312 COVID-19 cases by Friday

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria will be at least 312 by Friday, April 3, the University of Ibadan Committee on COVID-19 Data Analysis and Management has predicted.

As of 10.40pm on Saturday, March 28, Nigeria had recorded 97 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

This was an increase of 27 cases from the 70 confirmed cases as of 8pm on Friday, March 27.

In a graphical report, the UI team said if the current trend continued, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria would hit 312 by Friday, April 3.

The graphical report shared by UI’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnership, Prof. Olanike Adeyemo, on her Facebook wall “shows the rate at which the infection is being transmitted among those who were exposed to COVID-19.”

The explanatory note on one of the graphs read, “Approximately 70.4 per cent of those people currently infected with COVID-19 were initially exposed to the disease on day 12 of the occurrence of the disease in Nigeria.