Nigeria has recorded 38 new Coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 665. The number of deaths also increased from 21 to 22, just as the number of recoveries also rose to 188 patients.
Revealing this on Monday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said 23 of the new cases were recorded in Kano, five in Gombe, three in Kaduna, two each in Borno and Abia, while one each in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Sokoto and Ekiti.
“As at 11:10pm April 20, there are 665 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria,” NCDC tweeted.
Break down of the figure shows that Lagos has 376 cases, FCT 89, Kano 59, Osun 20, Oyo 16, Edo 15, Ogun and Katsina 12 each, Kwara, Kaduna and Akwa Ibom nine each, Bauchi seven, Gombe five, Delta and Ekiti Four each, Ondo and Borno three, Enugu, Rivers, Jigawa, Abia and Niger two each, while Anambra, Benue and Sokoto recorded one each.