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UPDATE 1-Former oil official is Nigeria's first coronavirus fatality -NCDC

Published 23/03/2020, 12:31
© Reuters.

(Adds identity of the man, place of death and total cases)
By Libby George
LAGOS, March 23 (Reuters) - Nigeria confirmed its first
fatality from coronavirus, the Nigeria Centre for Disease
Control said in a tweet on Monday.
The 67-year-old man, Suleiman Achimugu, died in the capital
Abuja after returning to Nigeria following a medical procedure
in the United Kingdom.
Achimugu, a former managing director of Nigeria's Pipelines
and Product Marketing Company, had underlying medical conditions
including multiple myeloma and diabetes and he was also
undergoing chemotherapy, the NCDC said.
In a statement, his family said he died on Sunday, "some
days" after returning from the UK, and had self-isolated before
experiencing symptoms and going to a specialist hospital for
testing and treatment.
Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, confirmed five
new cases of coronavirus on Monday, two of whom were travellers
who had returned from the United Kingdom.
There are now 36 confirmed cases, 25 of which are in the
commercial capital Lagos, a city with some 20 million residents.
Two patients have been discharged.
On Sunday, the governor of Lagos state called on all
non-essential government workers to work from home and practice
social distancing for at least two weeks, and appealed to the
private sector to do the same.

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