Nigeria has confirmed 49 new cases of the deadly coronavirus.
This brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 542.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease control took to its Twitter handle to confirm this new development.
It tweeted: “Forty-nine new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 23 in Lagos,12 in FCT, 10 in Kano, 2 in Ogun, 1 in Oyo, 1 in Ekiti.
“As at 10:40 pm 18th April, there are 542 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Discharged: 166 Deaths: 19 #TakeResponsibility.
The agency went on to give a break down of the number of cases in each affected state across the federation.
It said, “As at 10:40 pm 18th April, number of states with confirmed cases of #COVID19: 19 + FCT . Lagos- 306, FCT- 81, Kano- 37, Osun- 20, Oyo- 16, Edo- 15, Ogun- 12, Kwara- 9, Katsina- 9, Bauchi- 6, Kaduna- 6; Akwa Ibom- 6; Delta- 4; Ekiti- 4, Ondo- 3, Enugu- 2, Rivers-2, Niger- 2, Benue- 1, Anambra- 1.
