COVID-19: Nigeria Records 313 New Cases

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed three hundred and thirteen new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

The health sector confirmed this in a tweet on its official microblogging site account on Sunday night at about 11:12 PM. The new update brings the overall confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria to 7839, Naija News understands.

See the details of the new cases below.

313 new cases of #COVID19;

148-Lagos
36-FCT
27-Rivers
19-Edo
13-Kano
12-Ogun
11-Ebonyi
8-Nasarawa
8-Delta
7-Oyo
6- Plateau
5-Kaduna
4-Kwara
3-Akwa Ibom
3-Bayelsa
2-Niger
1-Anambra

7839 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 2263
Deaths: 226 pic.twitter.com/9xnlCpT902

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 24, 2020

Meanwhile, Naija News had reported earlier that the Zambia Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Hon. Dora Siliya has contracted the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19).