The coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria is still rising as the Nigeria Centre for Disease control, NCDC released its daily report for COVID-19 in the country. The agency records its highest number of cases in a single day. This also brings in more death cases and more patients discharged.
The NCDC agency made this known in a tweet.
It said, “117 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 59 in Lagos 29 in FCT 14 in Kano 6 in Borno 4 in Katsina 3 in Ogun 1 in Rivers 1 in Bauchi As at 11:25 pm 21st April there are 782 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.”
This brings the number of active coronavirus cases in the country to 560. The cases by states is; Lagos-430 FCT-118 Kano-73 Osun-20 Ogun-20 Oyo-16 Katsina-16 Edo-15 Kwara-9 Kaduna-9 Akwa Ibom-9 Borno-9 Bauchi-8 Gombe-5 Delta-4 Ekiti-4 Ondo-3 Rivers-3 Jigawa-2 Enugu-2 Niger-2 Abia-2 Benue-1 Anambra-1 Sokoto-1 .