86 New Cases Of Coronavirus Recorded In Nigeria

The Nigeria centre for disease control has announced 86 new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

Breaking down the new confirmed cases, the NCDC, said, 70 of the new cases were recorded in Lagos, 7 in the FCT, 3 in Akwa Ibom, 3 in Katsina state, 1 in Jigawa, 1 in Bauchi and 1 in Borno state.

Bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 627, with 21 deaths and 170 discharged.

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See the breakdown as posted by the NCDC below;

Eighty-six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported;

70 in Lagos
7 in FCT
3 in Katsina
3 in Akwa Ibom
1 in Jigawa
1 in Bauchi
1 in Borno

As at 11:50 pm 19th April there are 627 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.

Discharged: 170
Deaths: 21 pic.twitter.com/7gsnusWRow

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 19, 2020