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[Breaking] COVID-19: Nigeria Records New 248 Cases, Jigawa with 35 Cases, Total 4,399
Nigeria, on Sunday, announced that it has recorded 248 new cases of coronavirus in the country.
This was disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, via a tweet on its official Twitter handle.
The tweet read: “248 new cases of #COVID19; 81-Lagos 35-Jigawa 26-Borno 26-Kano 20-Bauchi 13-FCT 12-Edo 10-Sokoto 7-Zamfara 4-Kwara 4-Kebbi 2-Gombe 2-Taraba 2-Ogun 2-Ekiti 1-Osun 1-Bayelsa 4399 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria Discharged: 778 Deaths: 143.”
The Centre also apologised for an error in Saturday’s figures, in which 13 persons were discharged in FCT instead of the 32 persons that was contained in Saturday’s report.
“On the 9th on May, we announced 45 discharged cases & 4 deaths in FCT. Due to system error, 32 discharged cases and 2 deaths were wrongly announced, Therefore, FCT recorded 13 discharged cases & 2 deaths on May 9 2020 We apologise to @OfficialFCTA for this error.”
