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Nigeria Records 176 COVID-19 Cases, See Breakdown For Each State

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Nigeria has recorded new COVID-19 cases with the NCDC announcing 176 new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

Newsone Nigeria reports that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 176 new COVID-19 cases in a tweet on the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Saturday evening, May 16.

This burgeoning online news platform understands that the NCDC noted that of the 176 COVID-19 cases recorded on Saturday evening, 95 were detected in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city, 31-Oyo 11-FCT 8-Niger 8-Borno 6-Jigawa 4-Kaduna 3-Anambra 2-Edo 2-Rivers 2-Nasarawa 2-Bauchi 1-Benue 1-Zamfara, northern Nigeria.

The NCDC tweeted: “176 new cases of #COVID19; 95-Lagos 31-Oyo 11-FCT 8-Niger 8-Borno 6-Jigawa 4-Kaduna 3-Anambra 2-Edo 2-Rivers 2-Nasarawa 2-Bauchi 1-Benue 1-Zamfara 5621 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria Discharged: 1472 Deaths: 176,” the tweet added.

Meanwhile, Newsone Nigeria reports that the development means that Nigeria’s total confirmed cases of coronavirus have risen to five thousand, six hundred and twenty-one (5621) with one thousand, four hundred and seventy-two (1472) people discharged and one hundred and seventy-six (176) deaths recorded so far.

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