Nigeria has announced 23 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total to 174 confirmed cases.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control revealed this on Wednesday evening via its official Twitter handle.
It tweeted, “Twenty three new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria – Nine in Lagos, seven in the FCT, five in Akwa Ibom, one in Kaduna and one in Bauchi State.
“As of 08:00 pm on 1st of April, there are 174 confirmed cases of #COVID-19 reported in Nigeria. Nine have been discharged with two deaths.”
“As at 08:00 pm 1st April, there are 174 confirmed cases, 9 discharged 2 deaths. For a breakdown of cases by states- http://covid19.ncdc.gov.ng Currently; 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.”
With 9 cases reported in Lagos State, it remains the state with the highest number of confirmed cases. A total of 35 cases was reported on Wednesday, with 12 earlier announced in the day. This makes it the day with the highest number of confirmed cases in a single day.
