The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has announced Twenty-three new cases of COVID-19; 9 in Lagos, 7 in the FCT, 5 in Akwa Ibom, 1 in Kaduna and 1 in Bauchi State.
As such, the total number of confirmed cases have now risen to 174.
Nine have been discharged with two deaths.
Below are the states in Nigeria and their total number of cases as at 08:00 pm 1st April:
- Lagos- 91
- FCT- 35
- Osun- 14
- Oyo- 8
- Ogun- 4
- Edo- 4
- Kaduna- 4
- Bauchi- 3
- Enugu- 2
- Ekiti- 2
- Rivers-1
- Benue- 1
- Akwa Ibom- 5
In other news, the FCT, Lagos, Ogun and indeed several other states in Nigeria have commenced a two weeks lockdown to halt the spread of the infectious virus.
Europe that is now the worst-hit continent has recorded over 30,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus.
