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Nigeria Records 245 COVID-19 Cases, See Breakdown For Each State

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BREAKING: Nigeria Records 245 COVID-19 Cases, See Breakdown For Each State

Nigeria has recorded new COVID-19 cases with the NCDC announcing 245 new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

Newsone Nigeria reports that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 245 new COVID-19 cases in a tweet on the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Friday evening, May 22.

This burgeoning online news platform understands that the NCDC noted that of the 245 COVID-19 cases recorded on Friday evening, 131 were detected in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city,16-Jigawa 13-Ogun 12-Borno 9-Kaduna 9-Oyo 9-Rivers 9-Ebonyi 8-Kano 7-Kwara 5-Katsina 3-Akwa Ibom 3-Sokoto 2-Bauchi 2-Yobe 1-Anambra 1-Gombe 1-Niger 1-Ondo 1-Plateau 1-FCT 1-Bayelsa, south-south Nigeria.

The NCDC tweeted: “245 new cases of #COVID19; 131-Lagos 16-Jigawa 13-Ogun 12-Borno 9-Kaduna 9-Oyo 9-Rivers 9-Ebonyi 8-Kano 7-Kwara 5-Katsina 3-Akwa Ibom 3-Sokoto 2-Bauchi 2-Yobe 1-Anambra 1-Gombe 1-Niger 1-Ondo 1-Plateau 1-FCT 1-Bayelsa 7261 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria Discharged: 2007 Deaths: 221,” the tweet added.

Meanwhile, Newsone Nigeria reports that the development means that Nigeria’s total confirmed cases of coronavirus have risen to seven thousand and two hundred and sixty-one (7261) with two thousand and seven (2007) people discharged and two hundred and twenty-one (221) deaths recorded so far.

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