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

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.”