Eighty-Six New Covid19 Cases Reported In Nigeria

86 New Covid19 Cases has been Reported In Nigeria, NCDC reports.


According  to the Nigeria Centre for disease control (NCDC), these were 70 in Lagos, 7 in FCT, 3 in Katsina, 3 in Akwa Ibom, 1 in Jigawa, 1 in Bauchi and 1 in Borno.


In a series of tweets NCDC said as at 11:50 pm 19th April there are 627 confirmed cases of COVID19 reported in Nigeria, Discharged 170 with 21 deaths.


See tweets below

Eighty-six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported;

70 in Lagos
7 in FCT
3 in Katsina
3 in Akwa Ibom
1 in Jigawa
1 in Bauchi
1 in Borno

As at 11:50 pm 19th April there are 627 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.

Discharged: 170
Deaths: 21 pic.twitter.com/7gsnusWRow

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 19, 2020

NCDC said that one case was previously reported in Kano, has been transferred to Jigawa state, and there are 36 cases reported in Kano alone.


See below

One case previously reported in Kano, has been transferred to Jigawa state.

Therefore, the total number of confirmed cases in Kano is 36 as at the 19th of April 2020

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 19, 2020

Here are the breakdown of States with the number of cases.

As at 11:50 pm 19th April, the breakdown of cases by state is:

Lagos- 376
FCT- 88
Kano- 36
Osun- 20
Oyo- 16
Edo- 15
Ogun- 12
Kwara- 9
Katsina- 12
Bauchi- 7
Kaduna- 6
Akwa Ibom- 9
Delta- 4
Ekiti- 3
Ondo- 3
Enugu- 2
Rivers-2
Niger- 2
Benue- 1
Anambra- 1
Borno- 1
Jigawa- 2

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 19, 2020