The number of New Coronavirus, COVID-19, infections discovered in a single day in Nigeria hit its highest on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 with 195 cases.
Lagos topped with 80 new discoveries. Others, according to figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday night are:
38-Kano
15-Ogun
15-Bauchi
11-Borno
10-Gombe
9-Sokoto
5-Edo
5-Jigawa
2-Zamfara
1-Rivers
1-Enugu
1-Delta
1-FCT
1-Nasarawa
So far 255 persons have been discharged while 44 have died.
In Ghana, with a more aggressive testing capacity than Nigeria, the number of cases are 1,671. Nigeria’s closest anglophone West African neighbour has an estimated population of nearly 31 million while Nigeria’s is put at 200 million.