NCDC confirms 86 new Coronavirus cases, Lagos takes the lead

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) just confirmed 86 new Coronavirus cases in the country.

This was announced by the Centre via its official Twitter page stating that 70 cases were reported in Lagos, 7 in FCT, 3 in Katsina, 3 in Akwa Ibom and one each in Jigawa, Bauchi and Borno.

With 70 new cases in Lagos, NCDC revealed in a follow up tweet that there are now 376 confirmed cases in the state, which is the worst-hit state in the country.
On Saturday night NCDC announced forty-eight new cases in Nigeria.
As at yesterday, the centre in its tweet also stated that there here were 493 Coronavirus cases reported in Nigeria, 159 discharged and 17 deaths.

However, with the new cases announced today, there are now 627 cases of Coronavirus, 170 discharged and 21 deaths across the country.

In other news, Governors in the south-west have agreed to shut their borders and to make wearing of face masks compulsory to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the region.

Six states in the region reached the decision during a virtual meeting chaired by Ondostate governor, Rotimi Akeredolu who disclosed the development on Friday.

Governor Akeredolu stated that the governors agreed that wearing of face masks would be made compulsory for everybody coming out of their homes effective from Friday, April 24, 2020 in their respective states.

The six states include Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, and Oyo.

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