Nigeria has recorded new COVID-19 cases with the NCDC announcing 248 new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 248 new COVID-19 cases in a tweet on Sunday evening, May 10.
INN gathers that out of the 248 COVID-19 cases recorded on Sunday evening, 81 were detected in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city, 35-Jigawa 26-Borno 26-Kano 20-Bauchi 13-FCT 12-Edo 10-Sokoto 7-Zamfara 4-Kwara 4-Kebbi 2-Gombe 2-Taraba 2-Ogun 2-Ekiti 1-Osun 1-Bayelsa, south-south Nigeria.
The NCDC tweeted: “248 new cases of #COVID19; 81-Lagos 35-Jigawa 26-Borno 26-Kano 20-Bauchi 13-FCT 12-Edo 10-Sokoto 7-Zamfara 4-Kwara 4-Kebbi 2-Gombe 2-Taraba 2-Ogun 2-Ekiti 1-Osun 1-Bayelsa 4399 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria Discharged: 778 Deaths: 143,” the tweet added.
239 new cases of #COVID19;
97-Lagos
44-Bauchi
29-Kano
19-Katsina
17-Borno
7-FCT
6-Kwara
5-Oyo
3-Kaduna
3-Sokoto
2-Adamawa
2-Kebbi
2-Plateau
2-Ogun
1-Ekiti4151 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 745
Deaths: 128 pic.twitter.com/tVlNJr4AjL— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 9, 2020
However, the development means that Nigeria’s total confirmed cases of coronavirus have risen to four thousand, three hundred and ninety-nine (4399) with seven hundred and seventy-eight (778) people discharged and one hundred and forty-three (143) deaths recorded so far.