NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed that ten new cases of Coronavirus, COVID-19 have been recorded in Nigeria, with two more discharged and one new death bringing the total number of cases in the country to 224.
The agency disclosed this in a tweet on its official twitter handle.
It said, “ten new cases of #COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria; 6 in Lagos, 2 in the FCT, and 2 in Edo. As at 11:15pm 5th April there are 224 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Twenty-seven have been discharged with five deaths”
This brings an increase to the number of deaths, showing we need to be more careful and cautious, also adding to the number of discharged showing that we have hope and we would survive from this pandemic. This brings the number of active cases to 192.
Currently the cases by states are; Lagos – 115, FCT – 45, Osun – 20, Oyo – 9, Edo – 9 , Akwa Ibom – 5, Ogun – 4, Kaduna – 4, Bauchi – 6, Enugu – 2, Ekiti – 2, Rivers – 1, Benue – 1, Ondo – 1.