The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday April 8, 2020 said that 22 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria.
With the new cases, the nation now has a total of 276 coronavirus cases.
The Centre said, “Twenty-two new cases of #COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria: 15 in Lagos, 4 in the FCT, 2 in Bauchi, 1 in Edo. As at 09:00pm, 8th April, there are 276 confirmed cases of #COVID-19 reported in Nigeria. Forty-four have been discharged with six deaths”, the Centre said.
The breakdown of the cases per states is:
Lagos- 145 FCT- 54 Osun- 20 Oyo- 11 Edo- 12 Bauchi- 8 Akwa Ibom- 5 Kaduna- 5 Ogun- 4 Enugu- 2 Ekiti- 2 Rivers-2 Benue- 1 Ondo- 1 Kwara- 2 Delta- 1 Katsina-1.
