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Nigeria Records Highest Daily Cases of COVID-19 At 553; Total-9855

...2.5 million cases, 365,000 deaths worldwide

Nigeria, on Saturday, moved close to the 10,000 threshold, with the confirmation of 553 fresh cases of the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

This development came two-and-a-half months after the World Health Organisation, WHO, declared the disease a global pandemic.

On March 11, 2020, the WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,  declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic after the number of cases outside China increased 13-fold and the number of countries with cases increased threefold; all within two weeks.

The Johns Hopkins University also revealed on Saturday that more than 5.9 million cases of Covid-19 had been reported worldwide with at least 365,000 deaths.

Back home, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, disclosed that there were: “553 new cases of #COVID19; Lagos-378; FCT-52; Delta-23; Edo-22; Rivers-14; Ogun-13; Kaduna-12; Kano-9; Borno-7; Katsina-6; Jigawa-5; Oyo-5; Yobe-3; Plateau-3; Osun-1; 9855 cases of #COVID19Nigeria Discharged: 2856 Deaths: 273.”

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