A total of 812 healthcare workers have been infected with COVID-19 across the country, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 (PTF) announced on Tuesday. The NCDC boss said: “We have had 812 healthcare workers infected. We now have the third highest number of confirmed cases in the continent, just after South Africa and Egypt. “As of 30 May, of the 9,855 confirmed COVID-19 cases reported, 222 cases (2 per cent) had travel history2,357 cases (24 per cent) were contacts of confirmed cases while 7,276 cases (74 per cent) had unknown exposure. “For cases with unknown exposure, this means that there isn’t enough information to determine how they contracted the virus.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 03, 2020 14:03 UTC