Nigeria, May 10 -- The Kwara State Government announced the death of a COVID-19 patient on Saturday evening.

This is the first death related to the virus in the north-central state.

According to the spokesperson of the Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19, Rafiu Ajakaye, the patient recently arrived Kwara from Lagos with his wife and a child shortly after he suffered a stroke.

The three of them were treated as suspected COVID-19 cases and their samples taken.

The man died before the test results were out.

The results later came out positive for COVID-19 for the three of them.

Mr Ajakaye said the man has been buried while everyone involved in the burial has now had their samples taken.

"Because of the peculiarity of this deve...