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Nigeria has recorded 196 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1728.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known via its Twitter handle.
The NCDC also announced that Nigeria’s COVID-19 fatalities have increased to 51.
It tweeted, “196 new cases of #COVID19 reported: 87 were recorded in Lagos, Kano – 24, Gombe – 18, Kaduna – 17, FCT- 16, Katsina – 10, Sokoto – 8, Edo – 7, Borno – 6, one each in Yobe, Ebonyi, and Adamawa.
“As of 11:55 pm on the 29th of April, 1728 confirmed cases of #COVID-19 reported in Nigeria.
Discharged: 307; Deaths: 51.”
Meanwhile so many states have been complaining of inadequacy of reagents being deployed to test for the novel coronavirus.
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