By Hamilton Nwosa(Head, The New Diplomat’s Business and data tracking desk)
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), on Wednesday night recorded sixteen new cases of the novel Coronavirus (covid-19).
NCDC, In its Twitter update at 09.30 pm Tuesday night, confirmed 16 new cases. ten in Lagos, two in the FCT, two in Oyo, one in Delta and one in Katsina.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 254, 44 have been discharged with 6 deaths.
Read NCDC’s tweet below;
As at 09:30 pm 7th April, there are
254 confirmed cases
44 discharged
6 deathsFor more info-https://t.co/zQrpNeOfet
Lagos- 130
FCT- 50
Osun- 20
Oyo- 11
Edo- 11
Bauchi- 6
Akwa Ibom- 5
Kaduna- 5
Ogun- 4
Enugu- 2
Ekiti- 2
Rivers-2
Benue- 1
Ondo- 1
Kwara- 2
Delta- 1
Katsina-1— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 7, 2020
More details soon….