Statue In Brazil Is Lit Up With Flags Of Countries Affected With Coronavirus

Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has been lit up with the flags of countries currently battling with the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19).

GIOTV notes that there are several countries currently grappling with the coronavirus pandemic which first broke out in China in December 2019.

Nigeria is one of the countries affected with the pandemic, and efforts are ongoing by the federal and state governments that the disease is contained.

Recall that five new cases of the disease were confirmed in Nigeria, bringing the number of the victims to eight as the deadly virus spreads beyond borders.

The new cases were confirmed by the special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on new media, Tolu Ogunlesi, on Wednesday, March 18, barely twenty-four hours after the third case was reported.

In a series of tweet, Ogunlesi said four of the victims are Nigerians who just came from the United States of America and United Kingdom.

The presidential aide also claimed that one of the four new Nigerian victims is a 6-week old baby — the youngest victim reported so far.

He added that the fifth victim is a “foreign national who came in through the land border — the first case of infection via land border in Nigeria.”