The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has just announced 381 new cases of COVID-19 and increase in fatalities from 117 to 128.
With the 239 new cases, Nigeria now has a total of 4,151 cases, 745 recoveries, and 107 deaths.
Making the disclosure via its Twitter handle, the NCDC said: “As at 11:20pm 9th May 2020, there are 4151 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria”.
239 new cases of #COVID19 reported;
It also splitted the 239 new cases into states of occurrence as follows:
97-Lagos
44-Bauchi
29-Kano
19-Katsina
17-Borno
7-FCT
6-Kwara
5-Oyo
3-Kaduna
3-Sokoto
2-Adamawa
2-Kebbi
2-Plateau
2-Ogun
1-Ekiti
The alarming rate of increase in this statistical figures would definitely call for a month lockdown… I feel there should be some other ways to tackle this issue. When the lockdown was fully on, there was no geometrical increase.
Thanking God almighty on behalf of delta state
Wow.. 44 new cases in Bauchi. This thing is getting more serious in the north.