
Yemisi Izuora
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has confirmed 338 new COVID-19 cases in a tweet on the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Sunday evening, May 17.
The NCDC noted that of the 338 COVID-19 cases recorded on Saturday evening, 177 were recorded in Lagos, 64-Kano 21-FCT 16-Rivers 14-Plateau 11-Oyo 9-Katsina 4-Jigawa 4-Kaduna 3-Abia 3-Bauchi 3-Borno 2-Gombe 2-Akwa Ibom 2-Delta 1-Ondo 1-Kebbi 1-Sokoto.
With this, Nigeria’s total confirmed cases of coronavirus have risen to 5,559 with 1,594 people díscharged and 182 deaths recorded so far.

