The Lagos State Ministry of Health on Thursday disclosed that four new cases of the coronavirus  have been confirmed in the state.

The Commissioner of Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi made the disclosure at a press briefing.

“What we have is a combination of imported cases and local transmission,” he said.

Nigeria currently has eight confirmed cases of the disease. The four fresh cases bring the total number of COVID-19 patients in the country to 12.

Abayomi said out of the 19 tests that were conducted on suspected cases four turned out positive. He said they were contacts of the five cases that were confirmed on Wednesday.

He also said the recent cases include Nigerian female who returned from France via a Turkish airline (TK 1830) on March 14; a Nigerian in his 50s who did not travel out of the country, and another Nigerian male who arrived in the country on  March 13, from Frankfurt, Germany on Luftansa flight LH 568.

He also said contact tracing of over 1,300 persons is in progress.

Meanwhile, one patient who had contact with the index case — the Italian who travelled from Milan to Lagos — has recovered.