BREAKING: Nigeria confirms 22 new cases of COVID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed twenty-two new cases of Coronavirus in the country.

The Centre announced this on its twitter page few minutes ago.

According to it, 15 of the cases are in Lagos, 4 in the FCT, 2 in Bauchi, 1 in Edo.

As at 09:00pm 8th April,  there are 276 confirmed cases of  Coronavirus reported in Nigeria.

Forty-four have been discharged with six deaths.

Breakdown of the cases as at 09:00 pm 8th April, shows there are 276 confirmed cases, 44 discharged, 6 deaths.

Lagos- 145

FCT- 54

Osun- 20

Oyo- 11

Edo- 12

Bauchi- 8

Akwa Ibom- 5

Kaduna- 5

Ogun- 4

Enugu- 2

Ekiti- 2

Rivers-2

Benue- 1

Ondo- 1

Kwara- 2

Delta- 1

Katsina-1