86 New Cases of COVID-19 Confirmed In Nigeria

Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed another eighty six (86) new cases of Coronavirus (covid-19) in Nigeria, profjaysblog reports.

The new cases was confirmed via Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) official Twitter handle at about 11:50pm on Sunday, 19th April, 2020.

Below is the break down of the states and number of cases as said by NCDC.

70 in Lagos
7 in FCT
3 in Katsina
3 in Akwa Ibom
1 in Jigawa
1 in Bauchi
1 in Borno

According to NCDC, this brings the total number of Confirmed cases of covid-19 in Nigeria to 627, and total number of 170 persons have been discharged while 21 deaths have been recorded so far.

As at 11:50 pm 19th April, 2020, the breakdown of cases by state is as follows:

Lagos- 376
FCT- 88
Kano- 36
Osun- 20
Oyo- 16
Edo- 15
Ogun- 12
Kwara- 9
Katsina- 12
Bauchi- 7
Kaduna- 6
Akwa Ibom- 9
Delta- 4
Ekiti- 3
Ondo- 3
Enugu- 2
Rivers-2
Niger- 2
Benue- 1
Anambra- 1
Borno- 1
Jigawa- 2

One case previously reported in Kano, has been transferred to Jigawa state.

Therefore, the total number of confirmed cases in Kano is 36 as at the 19th of April 2020.