Nigeria, May 14 -- The Jigawa State government on Thursday announced 28 more confirmed cases of coronavirus amongst Islamic school pupils (almajiris) sent back from other states.

The state's taskforce chairman on COVID-19, Abba Zakari, told reporters that one more patient died from coronavirus complications.

"Unfortunately yesterday (Wednesday) we lost a patient; the patient wasn't regular on his drugs, he was on oxygen for about two days, he didn't make it and he died," the official said.

Mr Zakari said apart from the 23 confirmed cases announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday, 28 more cases on Thursday tested positive at a private laboratory.

He said all the 28 cases are almajiris repatriated from othe...