The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed five new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nigeria, bringing the country’s total number of confirmed cases to eight.

This was announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in a tweet on Wednesday.

The development is coming on the heels of Nigeria’s imposition of travel restriction on thirteen countries with over 1,000 cases of the virus.

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The countries include China, Iran, South Korea, Germany, Italy, USA, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, France and Japan.’

The new cases are said to have a travel history to the United States and the United Kingdom.

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