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General News of Monday, 27 April 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Nigeria's COVID-19 patients, doctors are invisible - Shehu Sani

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Former Nigerian lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has questioned the truthfulness of the NCDC's COVID-19 record in Nigeria as the cases keep rising on numbers without physical evidence.

This is coming after the country's cases rose to a total of 1273 on Sunday night, according to the NCDC's statistics.

The cases rose by close to 900 since the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retd.) announced a lockdown which clocks four weeks today, after an extension two-weeks ago.

The rise has left questions about the veracity of the result because unlike Nigeria, according to Sani, other country's show footages of their patients and doctors.

"The European #COVID19 Patients and the Medics attending to them in the wards are visible even on YouTube; Our Patients are visible on the index table," he tweeted.

NCDC announced 91 new cases on Sunday night:

"On the 26th of April 2020, 91 new confirmed cases and five new deaths were recorded in Nigeria.

"Four new states (Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Kebbi and Taraba) have reported confirmed cases in the last 24 hours.

"Till date, 1273 cases have been confirmed, 239 cases have been discharged and 40 deaths have been recorded in 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

"The 91 new cases are reported from sixteen states- Lagos (43), Sokoto (8), Taraba (6), Gombe (5), Ondo (3), FCT (3), Edo (3), Oyo (3), Rivers (3), Bauchi (3), Osun (2), Akwa Ibom (1), Bayelsa (1), Ebonyi (1), Kebbi (1)."