NCDC Reports 226 New Cases Of COVID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed two hundred and twenty-six new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

The new update released by the NCDC on Tuesday night brings the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria to 6401, with 1734 patients discharged while 192 confirmed dead.

See the new update below:

226 new cases of #COVID19;

131-Lagos
25-Ogun
15-Plateau
11-Edo
7-Kaduna
6-Oyo
5-FCT
5-Adamawa
4-Jigawa
4-Ebonyi
4-Borno
3-Nasarawa
2-Bauchi
2-Gombe
1-Enugu
1-Bayelsa

6401 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 1734
Deaths: 192 pic.twitter.com/KJeNRAKFVG

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 19, 2020

Meanwhile, the Personal Assistant on Social Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie, has reacted to claims that Madagascar billed Nigeria 170,000 Euros for the COVID-ORGANIC CVO sent to Nigeria.

Onochie while reacting to the report making round took to her Twitter account claiming that the organic was a gift from the Madagascar government.