By Hamilton Nwosa (Head, The New Diplomat’s Business and Data tracking desk)
Nigeria has recorded new daily covid-19 figures, with surging statistics now at 2,170. This marks a drastic jump from 1,932 which it was previously on Thursday to 2,170.
The NCDC in a tweet on Friday said that 238 new cases were recorded in twenty-two states, namely Kano, FCT, Lagos, Gombe, Bauchi, Delta, Oyo, Zamfara, Sokoto, Ondo, Nasarawa, Kwara, Edo, Ekiti, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Niger, Imo, Ebonyi, Rivers, Enugu states.
NCDC said as of “11:50 p.m. on May 1, there were 2,170 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria” out of which 351 infected people have allegedly recovered and have been given clean bill of health just as death toll also rose to 68.
