COVID-19: Nigeria now has 224 cases
Nigeria has recorded ten new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, driving the number of cases up to 224. As at 11:15am of the 5th of April there are 224 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria says Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via a tweet. The ten new cases are : Six in Lagos, two […]
FILE PHOTO: A resident undergoes free coronavirus test at the Mainland Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.
Nigeria has recorded ten new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, driving the number of cases up to 224.
As at 11:15am of the 5th of April there are 224 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria says Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via a tweet.
The ten new cases are : Six in Lagos, two in FCT and two in Edo.
At the moment, 27 persons have been discharged while four deaths has been recorded.
See tweet below
Ten new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 6 in Lagos, 2 in FCT and 2 in Edo.
As at 11:15 am 5th April there are 224 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Twenty-seven have been discharged with five deaths pic.twitter.com/zztdRENzUF
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 5, 2020
Here is the break down of confirmed cases according to states:
- Lagos- 115
- FCT- 45
- Osun- 20
- Oyo- 9
- Akwa Ibom- 5
- Ogun- 4
- Edo- 9
- Kaduna- 4
- Bauchi- 6
- Enugu- 2
- Ekiti- 2
- Rivers-1
- Benue- 1
- Ondo- 1