Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed 284 new cases of the novel coronavirus pandemic worldtopnewsng.com can confirm.
In an official tweet by the NCDC, Nigeria now has 6, 677 confirmed cases of the deadly virus as at Wednesday.
Lagos lead the way with a whopping 199 cases from the 284 fresh cases added on Wednesday.
As at 23:20 on Wednesday, Nigeria had recorded 1, 840 recoveries and a total of 200 dead cases so far.
284 new cases of #COVID19;
199-Lagos
26-Rivers
19-Oyo
8-FCT
8-Borno
7-Plateau
6-Jigawa
5-Kano
2-Abia
1-Ekiti
1-Delta
1-Kwara
1-Taraba6677 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 1840
Deaths: 200 pic.twitter.com/awxMgfp7U5— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 20, 2020