BREAKING: Nigeria Records 381 New Cases of COVID-19, Toll Now 3526

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC on Thursday via its verified Twitter handle have confirmed 381 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 3526. 

It tweeted, “On the 7th of May 2020, 381 new confirmed cases and four deaths were recorded in Nigeria.

“No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.

Hence, the 381 new cases are the biggest Nigeria has ever recorded in 24 hours since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

This latest update as of May 7 by NCDC shows that Lagos has the highest number of 183 new cases, Kano (55), Jigawa(44), Zamfara(19), Borno(9), Bauchi(19), Katsina(11), Kwara(8), Kaduna(7), Gombe(6), Ogun(5), Sokoto(4), Oyo(3), Rivers(3), Niger(2), Akwa Ibom(1), Enugu(1), Plateau(1).

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Nigeria has 22,492 samples tested in its ongoing campaign against the deadly COVID-19, which is far less than Ghana and South Africa that have conducted over 100,000 and close to 200,000 testings so far, with South Africa increasing its daily tests to more than 10,000 a day.

 Nigeria so far has discharged is 601 cases and have recorded 107 deaths.

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