By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Nigeria is steadily, albeit dangerously climbing the coronavirus prevalence ladder as the confirmed cases in the country increased to 2,950 on Tuesday.
This is after 148 new infections were recorded in the country in the last 24 hours.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known on its website.
The NCDC also noted that five patients died of coronavirus-related complications in the last 24 hours.
A breakdown of data obtained from the NCDC’s website showed that the country currently has 2,369 active COVID-19 cases.
It said, “On the 5th of May 2020, 146 new confirmed cases and 5 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.
“Till date, 2948 cases have been confirmed, 481 cases have been discharged and 98 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Two more cases were recorded later to bring the total to 2,950.
“The 146 new cases are reported from 16 states- Lagos(43), Kano(32), Katsina(nine), FCT(10), Zamfara(14), Taraba(seven), Borno(seven), Ogun(six), Oyo(five), Edo(three), Kaduna(three), Adamawa(two), Gombe(two), Plateau(one), Sokoto(one), Kebbi(one).”
