Nigeria recorded 381 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, May 7, 2020. This is the highest number the country has recorded since it first confirmed it’s index case in Lagos.
This brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 3526.
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) took to it’s official Twitter handle to make the announcement.
It tweeted, “out of the 195 new cases of COVID-19, 183 were recorded in Lagos, 55 in Kano, 44 in Jigawa, 19 in Zamfara, 19 in Bauchi, 11 in Katsina, 9 in Borno, 8 in Kwara, 7 in Kaduna, 6 in Gombe, 5 in Ogun, 4 in Sokoto, 3 in Oyo, 3 in Rivers, 2 in Niger, 1 in Akwa Ibom, 1 in Enugu and 1 in Plateau.
601 patients have been discharged from various Isolation centers across the country; 107 deaths have been recorded.
