Eighty-six new cases of #COVID19 have been recorded in Nigeria.
This brings the total number of cases in the country to 627.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced the cases late on Sunday night via Twitter.
Seventy of the new cases are recorded in Lagos.
The NCDC tweet read: “Eighty-six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported;
70 in Lagos
7 in FCT
3 in Katsina
3 in Akwa Ibom
1 in Jigawa
1 in Bauchi
1 in Borno
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“As at 11:50 pm 19th April there are 627 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.
Discharged: 170
Deaths: 21
“As at 11:50 pm 19th April, the breakdown of cases by state is:
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 and 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.”
