NCDC confirms 117 new cases of coronavirus in Nigeria as toll rises to 782

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Africa Press-Nigeria:

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday, confirmed 117 new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

NCDC in a tweet on its official Twitter page, disclosed that the confirmed cases were 59 in Lagos, 14 in Kano, 29 in FCT, 6 in Borno , 4 in Kastina, 3 in Ogun, 1 in Bauchi and 1 in Rivers.

This now brings the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria to 782.

NCDC wrote, ”As at 11:25pm 21th April there are 782confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria, 197 have been discharged with 25deaths

”There are 25 states with confirmed cases in Nigeria .”

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