The Bauchi State Government has said that it doesn’t know why the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has yet to make public the third case in the state.
The NCDC said as of 12:30 pm on Wednesday there were 151 confirmed cases of Coronavirus reported in Nigeria.
The NCDC, in its breakdown of these cases, said Bauchi had two confirmed cases.
Bauchi State Government, on Tuesday evening, confirmed a fresh case of the Coronavirus, which brought the total number in the state to three.
The Deputy Governor, Senator Baba Tela, disclosed this to reporters during the daily press briefing on the updates of Coronavirus at the Bayara Isolation Centre.
He said that the third case is a 55-year-old man who had contact with one of the two positive cases in the state.
The first confirmed case was the Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, and the second was his 62-year-old friend.
However, the NCDC confirmed the third case of the pandemic in Bauchi state.
As at 08:00 pm on April 1, there are 174 confirmed cases of Coronavirus reported in Nigeria. Nine have been discharged with two deaths.