The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed eight new cases of coronavirus in the country.
\nNCDC made the announcement in a tweet Sunday evening.
\nThe tweet reads, \u201cEight new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria: 5 in Lagos, 2 in the FCT and 1 in Kaduna State.
\n\u201cAs at 09:30pm, 5th April, there are 232 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria.
\n\u201cThirty-three have been discharged with five deaths.\u201d
\nThe NCDC announced this on its Twitter handle, yesterday, but did not give details of the death, just as it gave details of the affected states in its Situation Update on its website.
\nThe centre also said that two patients have been discharged without naming the isolation facilities where they were treated, bringing the number of discharged cases to 27.
\nHowever, the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said a patient was discharged on Saturday afternoon, making it 24 COVID-19 patients treated and released by the state.
\nThe NCDC also announced that Nigeria has recorded 10 new cases of Coronavirus in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Lagos, and Edo states.
\nThe newly confirmed cases bring the total number of infections in Nigeria to 224, the infectious diseases centre added.
\nThe NCDC tweeted, \u201cTen new cases of #COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria \u2013 six in Lagos State, two in FCT, and two in Edo State.
\n\u201cAs of 11:15 am on the 5th of April, 2020, there are 224 confirmed cases of #COVID-19 reported in Nigeria. 27 have been discharged with five deaths.
\n\u201cFor a breakdown of cases by states, Lagos has 115 cases, FCT \u2013 45, Osun \u2013 20, Oyo \u2013 nine, Akwa Ibom \u2013 five, Ogun \u2013 four, Edo \u2013 nine, Kaduna \u2013 four, Bauchi \u2013 six, Enugu \u2013 two, Ekiti \u2013 two, Rivers \u2013 one, Benue \u2013 one, Ondo \u2013 one\u201d, the NCDC added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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