It has again been officially announced by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), on Friday night that the country recorded 238 new cases of Coronavirus.
According to a tweet from NCDC, Kano State recorded 92 cases, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded 36 cases, Lagos State had 30 cases, Gombe State had 16 cases and Bauchi state recorded ten cases.
The tweet further revealed that Delta State recorded eight cases, Oyo State had six cases, Zamfara and Sokoto States had five cases each, Ondo and Nasarawa State had four cases, Kwara, Edo, Ekiti Borno and Yobe recorded three cases each, Adamawa State had two cases and Niger, Imo, Ebonyi, Rivers and Enugu states recorded one case each
As it stands, 2170Â persons have tested positive to Coronavirus in Nigeria, with 351 patients discharged, and 68 deaths recorded.
PMParrot gathered that the issue of scarcity of reagents to use in testing for the virus was still being looked into by the Federal Government.
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