Nigeria Reports Highest Daily Cases Of COVID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday, announced  195 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID- 19) in the country. It was the highest number of new daily ever announced since the advent of the pandemic.

This brings the total number of infections in Nigeria to 1,532.

The NCDC, in a tweet at about 11:50 p.m. on Tuesday, said:

According to the agency, Nigeria now has 1,233 Active Cases Recorded as of 11:50 p.m. on April 28, while 255 infected persons have been treated and discharged, with 44 deaths recorded.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NCDC Laboratory Strategic Group has set itself a target of testing two million people across Nigeria in the next three months.

It disclosed that the two million people would come to about 50,000 per state.

NCDC has fully set up expanded laboratory network for COVID-19 across the six geopolitical zones of the country, as 13 laboratories have been activated.

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