The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reportedly recorded 108 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.
In a tweet on Thursday night, the NCDC said that the new cases had taken the total number of infections in the country to 981.
The centre said that 78 of the new infections were recorded in Lagos, 14 in FCT, 5 in Ogun, 4 in Gombe, 3 Borno, 2 in Akwa Ibom, and 1 each in Kwara and Plateau.
The NCDC added that as of 11:30 p.m. on April 23, there were 981 confirmed cases of the coronavirus reported in Nigeria.
According to the Nigeria’s agency, total deaths recorded in the country from the coronavirus (COVID-19) now stands at 31, while 197 infected persons had been treated and discharged.
It disclosed that Nigeria now has 753 Active Cases as of 11:30p.m. on April 23.
According to a report in South Africa, Africa has registered a 43 percent jump in reported COVID-19 cases in the last week, with officials highlighting a warning from the World Health Organization (WHO) that the continent of 1.3 billion could become the next epicenter of the global outbreak.
Africa also has a “very, very limited” and “very, very strained” testing capacity, John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in his weekly briefing on Thursday.
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