Nigeria Records 276 New Cases Of COVID-19

Two hundred and seventy-six new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria has been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.

The sector on Tuesday night, at about 11:30 pm, released updates of new cases of the dreadful disease which overall figure has risen to 8344 in the country, as at the time of filing this report.

See details of the new cases below as given by the NCDC.

276 new cases of #COVID19;

Lagos-161
Rivers-36
Edo-27
Kaduna-19
Nasarawa-10
Oyo-6
Kano-4
Delta-3
Ebonyi-3
Gombe-2
Ogun-1
Ondo-1
Borno-1
Abia-1
Bauchi-1

8344 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 2385
Deaths: 249#TakeResponsibility pic.twitter.com/Xl7QefqAWQ

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 26, 2020

Meanwhile, the Kaduna State Government led by Governor Nasir El-Rufai has extended COVID-19 lockdown in the northern state by another two weeks amid Coronavirus in Kaduna.