NCDC Announces 20 New COVID-19 Cases, Total 343

• NCDC Announces 20 New COVID-19 Cases, Total 343

The total number of confirmed cases rose by 20 immediately President Muhammadu Buhari extended the nation’s lockdown by another 14 days.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), through its official twitter handle @NCDCgov, reported twenty new cases of coronavirus on Monday to take the total number from 323 announced on Sunday to 343 cases.

According to the centre, 13 of the new cases were confirmed in Lagos; 2 in Edo; 2 in Kano; 2 in Ogun and 1 in Ondo.

“As at 09:50 pm 13th April there are 343 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 91 have been discharged with 10 deaths,” the NCDC stated.

However, the number of states with confirmed cases stood at 19 with Lagos leading 189 cases.

Followed by FCT- 56; Osun- 20; Edo- 14; Oyo- 11; Ogun- 9; Bauchi- 6; Kaduna- 6; Akwa Ibom- 5; Katsina-5; Kwara- 4; Ondo- 3; Delta- 3; Kano- 3; Enugu- 2; Ekiti- 2; Rivers-2; Benue- 1; Niger- 1 and Anambra- 1.

President Buhari had said “we had 131 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 12 States on 30th March 2020. We had two fatalities then.

“This morning, Nigeria had 323 confirmed cases in twenty States. Unfortunately, we now have ten fatalities. Lagos State remains the centre and accounts for 54% of the confirmed cases in Nigeria. When combined with the FCT, the two locations represent over 71% of the confirmed cases in Nigeria.

“Most of our efforts will continue to focus in these two locations.”