By Ralph Chris-Izokpu
Nigeria has recorded five new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 343
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control disclosed this via its Twitter handle on Monday night.
In addition to the total number of 343, 91 have been discharged while a total of 10 deaths has been recorded.
According to the Tweet by NCDC, Twenty new cases of #COVID19 have been reported as follows:13 in Lagos, 2 in Edo, 2 in Kano, 2 in Ogun 1 in Ondo. As at 09:50 pm 13th April there are 343 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 91 have been discharged with 10 deaths
This brings No of states with confirmed cases to 19.
With the new figure, the breakthrough for the States show that currently, Lagos State has 189, FCT- 56, Osun- 20, Edo- 14, Oyo- 11, Ogun- 9, Bauchi- 6, Kaduna- 6, Akwa Ibom- 5, Katsina-5, Kwara- 4, Ondo- 3, Delta- 3, Kano- 3, Enugu- 2, Ekiti- 2, Rivers-2, Benue- 1, Niger- 1, Anambra- 1