COVID-19: Toll hits 323 in Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has stated the country recorded 5 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday.

According to a tweet on its authentic Twitter handle: @ncdcgov, “Five new cases of #COVID19 have been pronounced as follows: two in Lagos, two in Kwara, 1 in Katsina.

“As at 09:10pm, 12th April, there are 323 tested cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 85 have been discharged with 10 deaths.”

Five new cases of #COVID19 have been reported as follows:

2 in Lagos
2 in Kwara
1 in Katsina

As at 09:10 pm 12th April there are 323 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 85 have been discharged with 10 deaths

There are 19 states with confirmed cases in Nigeria pic.twitter.com/hfsRXAaiTQ

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 12, 2020

It added: “There are 19 states with confirmed cases in Nigeria, namely: Lagos- 176, FCT- 56, Osun- 20, Edo- 12, Oyo- 11, Ogun- 7, Bauchi- 6, Kaduna- 6, Akwa Ibom- 5, Katsina-5, Kwara- 4, Delta- 3, Enugu- 2, Ekiti- 2, Rivers-2, Ondo- 2, Benue- 1, Niger- 1, Anambra- 1, and Kano- 1.”