COVID-19 Cases Rise By 51 to 493 -NCDC

• COVID-19 Cases Rise By 51 to 493 -NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday announced that the total number of COVID-19 confirmed cases has risen by 51 from 442 announced on Thursday to 493 on Friday.

The pace of spread of the virus has surged in Africa’s most populous nation despite efforts to slow it down. Also, the total number of deaths rose by 41.2 percent from 12 recorded on Wednesday to 17 on Friday.

A breakdown of the new confirmed cases revealed that 32 were in Lagos; 6 in Kano; 5 in Kwara; 2 in FCT; 2 in Oyo; 2 in Katsina; 1 in Ogun and 1 in Ekiti.

“As at 10:10 pm 17th April there are 493 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria,” the NCDC stated on its Twitter page.

Lagos now has a total number of Lagos 283 confirmed cases; FCT- 69; Kano- 27; Osun- 20; Edo- 15; Oyo- 15; Ogun- 10; Kwara- 9; Katsina- 9; Bauchi- 6; Kaduna- 6; Akwa Ibom- 6; Delta- 4; Ondo- 3; Ekiti- 3; Enugu- 2; Rivers-2; Niger- 2; Benue- 1 and Anambra- 1.