Tanzania
Tanzania has confirmed its first coronavirus death, the country’s Minister of Health, Ummy Mwalimu said in a statement.
Duaglobalnews quoted Today.ng as saying that the 49-year-old Tanzanian male, who had pre-existing conditions, had been admitted to Mloganzila Hospital, in Dar Es Salaam, for treatment.
Tanzania had 19 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Monday while Nigeria has recorded 135 cases of the pandemic disease while 8 have recovered from the disease, as at March 31.
The novel virus is said to have reached half of the 54 African nations.
Meanwhile, the lockdown in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and most of the states of the federation have begun with roads in nation’s capital devoid of vehicular movement.
In Lokoja, the capital of kogi state, north central Nigeria, members of transport unions were seen enforcing the total compliant to order banning movement of commercial vehicles in the state.
As a result of the enforcement, some residents, who claimed to have gone to the market to buy food stuff,have were seen along the popular Murtala Muhammed way, Lokoja were seen stranded m
The ban is part of the move by the state government to check the spread of COVID-19 to the state, the pandemic that has so far recorded 131 and two deaths in Nigeria.
Duaglobalnews reports that kogi state has not recorded any reported case of Coronavirus since it broke out in Wuhan in China, December, 2019.
