Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 386 new coronavirus cases and 10 new deaths on Friday night.
This was made known via the official Twitter handle of the centre, stating;
386 new cases of #COVID19;
176-Lagos
65-Kano
31-Katsina
20-FCT
17-Borno
15-Bauchi
14-Nasarawa
13-Ogun
10-Plateau
4-Oyo
4-Sokoto
4-Rivers
3-Kaduna
2-Edo
2-Ebonyi
2-Ondo
1-Enugu
1-Imo
1-Gombe
1-Osun3912 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 679
Deaths: 117 pic.twitter.com/IUWL9ROjqQ— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 8, 2020
It would be recalled that as at Thursday night, there were 3526 coronavirus cases, 601 discharged and 107 deaths.
However, with the newly recorded infections, there are now 3912 total cases, 679 discharged and 117 deaths across the country.
In addition, in a tweet posted earlier today May 7th, NCDC revealed that 23,835 samples have been tested nationwide.
In other news, Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has said Nigeria was at the community transmission phase of coronavirus where violations of guidelines could portend danger for the country.
Mustapha made the comments during the briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Friday.
He said;
The outcome of our surveillance still points to the fact that violations are still rampant and as I have always pointed out, portends a very dangerous trend.
Mustapha explained that;
Nigeria is presently at the community transmission phase and yesterday – Thursday 7th May, 2020, we witnessed the highest single-day number of 381 confirmed cases. This could be considered worrisome but for the fact that this rise is associated with our increased testing capacity, which has provided an opportunity to detect hitherto hidden cases
He however stated that increased testing rate does not translate to higher fatality rates as there have recently been good number of discharged patients.
