Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday, has announced four more new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), making the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria rise to 139.
“Ten new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 7 in Lagos and 3 in the FCT,” NCDC tweeted.
“2nd April there are 184 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Twenty have been discharged with two deaths.”
“As at 08:00 pm 2nd April, there are 184 confirmed cases,20 discharged,2 deaths. For a breakdown of cases by states in real-time, please see http://covid19.ncdc.gov.ng
“Currently; Lagos- 98 FCT- 38 Osun- 14 Oyo- 8 Akwa Ibom- 5 Ogun- 4 Edo- 4 Kaduna- 4 Bauchi- 3 Enugu- 2 Ekiti- 2
Rivers-1 Benue- 1.”
Ten new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 7 in Lagos and 3 in the FCT.
As at 08:00 pm 2nd April there are 184 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Twenty have been discharged with two deaths pic.twitter.com/XWSSLVi7Zq
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 2, 2020
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