The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday night confirmed 16 new cases of coronavirus.
The number of confirmed cases of the virus in the country now stand at 254.
In a tweet on it official Twitter @NCDCgov it announced, “Sixteen new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 10 in Lagos, 2 in the FCT, 2 in Oyo, 1 in Delta and 1 in Katsina.
“As at 09:30 pm 7th April there are 254 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Fourty-four have been discharged with six deaths”.
NCDC gave the current breakdown of cases in the country as follows:
Lagos- 130
FCT- 50
Osun- 20
Oyo- 11
Edo- 11
Bauchi- 6
Akwa Ibom- 5
Kaduna- 5
Ogun- 4
Enugu- 2
Ekiti- 2
Rivers-2
Benue- 1
Ondo- 1
Kwara- 2
Delta- 1
Katsina-1