COVID-19: Nigeria Confirmed 117 New Cases; Total Now 782

• COVID-19: Nigeria Confirmed 117 New Cases; Total Now 782

Coronavirus continues to spread in Africa’s most populous nation as the number of testing centres increases.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday reported 117 new cases of COVID-19 to take the total number of confirmed cases to 782.

A break down of the 117 new cases revealed that 59 new cases were confirmed in Lagos, while 29 cases were reported in FCT and 14 in Kano.

Borno, Katsina, Ogun, Rivers and Bauchi recorded 6, 4, 3, 1 and 1 cases, respectively.

“As at 11:25 pm 21st April there are 782 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria,” the NCDC stated on its official Twitter page.

Therefore, the total confirmed cases in Lagos rose to 430 on Tuesday. While FCT cases hit 118, while Kano-73; Osun-20; Ogun-20; Oyo-16; Katsina-16; Edo-15; Kwara-9; Kaduna-9; Akwa Ibom-9; Borno-9; Bauchi-8; Gombe-5; Delta-4; Ekiti-4; Ondo-3; Rivers-3; Jigawa-2; Enugu-2; Niger-2; Abia-2; Benue-1; Anambra-1 and Sokoto-1.