Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed a total of One hundred and fourteen (114) new cases of COVID -19 in eight States and the Federal capital territory(FCT).
The Agency announced this on its twitter handle on friday.
According to the centre, 80 of the new cases were recorded in Lagos, 21 in Gombe, 5 in the FCT, 2 in Zamfara, 2 in Edo, 1 in Ogun, 1 in Oyo, 1 in Kaduna, and 1 in Sokoto.
With the new cases Nigeria has now recorded 1095 confirmed cases with 208 recovery and 32 deaths.
Since its emergence in China in December 2019 over 2,770,750 cinfirmed cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories, and of these cases, at least 736,800 are now considered recovered.
In the United States, which is now the worst-hit country, the death toll stands at 50,360 with 884,004 infections with at least 81,338 patients having recovered.
Italy is the next most affected country with 25,969 deaths and 192,994 confirmed infections.
It is followed by Spain with 22,524 fatalities and 219,764 confirmed infections, France with 22,245 deaths and 159,828 infections and Britain with 19,506 deaths and 143,464 cases.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 4,632 deaths and 82,804 cases, just six since Thursday.
Since Thursday 1900 GMT, Sierra Leone announced its first death caused by the virus.
Europe has listed 1,329,695 cases and 119,211 deaths to date, the US and Canada together have 927,543 cases with 52,689 deaths, Asia 188,320 cases with 7,664 deaths, the Middle East 146,298 cases with 6,122 deaths, Latin America and the Caribbean 142,389 cases with 6,815 deaths. Africa lists 28,542 cases with 1,326 deaths and Oceania 7,964 cases with 103 deaths.
