Another 19 cases have been recorded in the yet to named company in Ibadan as the number of confirmed cases in Oyo state rose to 137, insideoyo.com reports.
This brings the total number of cases in the said company to 57.
Seyi Makinde, the state governor and the chairman of the Covid-19 task force in the state made this known in a tweet on his verified twitter account on Monday night.
He said “The COVID-19 confirmation tests for nineteen suspected cases came back POSITIVE.
“All nineteen of these cases are from the same organisation referred to in the update of May 16 and 17, 2020.
“So, the total number of confirmed cases in Oyo State is 137.”
The state government is expected to make the name of the company public today to allow people who have visited or have contact with any of their staff come for Covid-19 test.
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country exceeded 6,000 on Monday as 216 newly infected people were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
As of the time of reporting, the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria rose to 6, 175 on Monday evening from 5, 959 reported on Sunday evening.
Nine people also died from the virus on Monday , according to the NCDC.
The health agency in a tweet Monday night said the new cases were reported in 15 states. These are Lagos, Katsina, Oyo, Kano, Edo, Zamfara, Ogun, Gombe, Borno, Bauchi, Kwara, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kaduna, Enugu, and Rivers states.
All the reporting states already had at least a case of the virus.
“Till date, 6, 175 cases have been confirmed, 1644 cases have been discharged and 192 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory,” the NCDC said.
The details of the 216 new cases are as follows: Lagos – 74, Katsina – 33, Oyo – 19, Kano – 17, Edo – 13, Zamfara – 10, Ogun – 8, Gombe – 8, Borno – 8, Bauchi – 7, Kwara – 7, FCT – 4, Kaduna – 3, Enugu – 3, and Rivers – 2.
Nigeria has so far tested 35, 345 persons since the beginning of the pandemic.
A breakdown of all the confirmed cases so far shows that 6,175 infections have been reported in Nigeria since the index case in February. Of that number, 4,340 cases are still active, 1,644 have recovered and have been discharged, and 191 deaths have been reported.
A breakdown of the 6,175 confirmed cases shows that Lagos State has so far reported 2, 624 cases, followed by Kano – 824, FCT – 422, Katsina – 281, Bauchi – 222, Borno – 223, Jigawa – 201, Ogun – 153, Kaduna – 145, Gombe – 134, Sokoto – 113, Edo – 108, Zamfara – 84, Kwara – 65, Osun – 42, Rivers – 53, Plateau – 35, Yobe – 32, Kebbi – 32, Nasarawa – 31, Delta – 27, Niger – 22, Adamawa – 21, Ondo – 20, Ekiti – 19,Akwa Ibom – 18, Taraba – 17, Enugu – 15, Ebonyi – 9, Imo – 7, Bayelsa – 6, Benue – 5, Anambra – 5 and Abia – 5.
