Nigeria has recorded 238 new cases of COVID-19 as deaths rose to 68, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said in a tweet on Friday.
Nigeria’s capital city Abuja and Kano states have the highest numbers. While Kano recorded 92 new cases, Abuja recorded 36 new cases.
Lagos State, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria, recorded 30 new cases.
The spread of the virus further intensified in Gombe State as the state recorded 16 new states.
Bauchi recorded 10 new cases while Delta state has eight new cases, NCDC also announced six new cases in Oyo State.
Zamfara and Sokoto states both recorded five new cases each, while Ondo and Nassarawa recorded four new cases each.
Kwara, Edo, Ekiti, Borno and Yobe states all recorded three new cases each.
While Adamawa got new cases in the last 24 hours, Niger, Imo, Ebonyi, Rivers and Enugu states reported one new case of coronavirus each.
In total, Nigeria has now confirmed 2170 cases of COVID19, discharged 351 persons, while 68 persons have died.
Nigeria will begin a “phased and gradual” easing of more than four weeks of lockdowns in the national capital and the largest city on May 4, President Muhammadu Buhari said in an address on Monday.
Lagos and Ogun states and the federal capital territory of Abuja entered lockdowns to tame the spread of the new coronavirus on March 30.
Buhari said the lockdowns had come at a “very heavy economic cost,” stripping many citizens of their livelihoods.
The countries that registered the most deaths over the 24 hours were Britain with 739, Brazil with 435 and Spain with 281.
The United States has the highest number of total deaths with 63,127 out of 1,082,411 cases. At least 159,663 have been declared recovered.
Italy has the second-highest toll with 28,236 deaths out of 207,428 cases, followed by Britain with 27,510 deaths on 177,454 cases, Spain 24,824 deaths and 215,216 cases and France with 24,594 deaths and 167,346 cases.
The country with the highest proportion of fatalities per population is Belgium, with 66 deaths per 100,000 people, followed by Spain with 53, Italy with 47, Britain with 41 and France with 38.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 4,633 deaths and 82,874 cases. It has 77,642 recovered cases.
Europe has a total of 140,101 deaths from 1,495,563 cases, the United States and Canada have 66,589 deaths and 1,137,191 cases, Latin America and the Caribbean have 11,548 deaths and 218,824 cases, Asia has 8,727 deaths and 227,471 cases, the Middle East has 6,791 deaths and 176,715 cases, Africa has 1,645 deaths from 39,668 cases, and Oceania 118 deaths from 8,086 cases.
