Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has reported 1, 699 cases of the novel coronavirus pandemic worldtopnewsng.com can confirm. The agency also confirmed 627 today.
In an official tweet by the NCDC, Nigeria now has 15, 181 confirmed cases of the deadly virus as at Friday.
Lagos lead the way with a whopping 229 cases from the 627 new cases added on Friday.
As at 23:44 on Friday, Nigeria had recorded 4, 891 recoveries and a total of 399 dead cases so far.