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Statistics have shown that males are more infected with coronavirus than females in Nigeria, according to data obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC).
The data, which was last updated on Monday, showed that 72 percent of the infected persons in the country are males while 28 percent are females.
A further breakdown of the data also showed that people within the age group of 31-60 are mostly infected, having formed 55 percent of patients.
Though 9029 were identified as passengers of interest, 99 percent of them(8942) were said to have exceeded follow up.
161 patients, which formed 50 percent of those infected had travel history while 111 patients(34 percent) are contacts of previous cases.
However, the statistics showed that how three percent of the infected patients contracted the virus is unknown.
Apart from the patients with unknown sources of contracting the virus, the provenance of 41 others is incomplete.
As of 09:50 pm on Monday, there are 343 confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in Nigeria,after 20 new cases were recorded.
Another coronavirus-related death was recorded in Lagos State on Tuesday, bringing the number of fatalities in the country to 11.
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said the deceased is a 56-year-old Nigerian man, who returned from the United States.
Six of the 11 fatalities were recorded in Lagos, two in Abuja while Edo, Katsina, and Delta states recorded one each.
The virus has spread to 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
(The Punch)