Nigeria Records 195 New Cases of COVID-19, Total Now 1,532

While most cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus have been reported in the U.S. , Europe, and China, the virus is spreading rapidly across the African continent.

The confirmed worldwide cases for the virus have surpassed three million with the current figure being at 3,131,503.

The total number of COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria has increased to 1532 after 195 new infections were recorded on Tuesday.

The 195 new cases were recorded in Lagos, Kano, Ogun, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Sokoto, Edo, Jigawa, Zamfara, Rivers, Enugu, Delta, FCT and Nasarawa

According to the NCDC in a tweet via its official handle, 195 new cases of ‪#COVID19‬ have been reported as follows: 80 cases recorded in Lagos, 38 cases in Kano, 15 cases in Ogun, 15 cases in Bauchi, 11 cases in Borno, 10 cases Gombe, 9 cases in Sokoto, 5 cases in Edo, 5 cases in Jigawa, 2 cases in Zamfara and 1 case each in Rivers, Enugu, Delta, FCT and Nasarawa

“As at 11:50pm April 28, there are 1532 confirmed cases of ‪#COVID19‬ reported in Nigeria. 255 people have discharged while 44 have died of the novel coronavirus.”

195 new cases of #COVID19 reported;

80-Lagos
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

As at 11:50pm 28th April- 1532 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.

Discharged: 255
Deaths: 44 pic.twitter.com/oPyG4xfoa3

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 28, 2020

Case Summary in Nigeria as at April 28, 2020
Till date, 1532 cases have been confirmed, 255 cases have been discharged and 44 deaths have been recorded in 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

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States Affected |No. of Cases | No. of Active Cases |No. of Discharged | No. of Deaths.

States Affected	No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed)	No. of Active Cases	No. Discharged	No of Deaths
Lagos	844	682	143	19
Abuja FCT	158	119	36	3
Kano	115	114	0	1
Borno	53	51	0	2
Ogun	50	42	7	1
Gombe	46	46	0	0
Osun	34	14	18	2
Katsina	30	28	0	2
Edo	30	19	8	3
Bauchi	29	23	6	0
Oyo	21	10	9	2
Sokoto	19	16	0	3
Kaduna	15	9	6	0
Akwa Ibom	12	2	9	1
Kwara	11	9	2	0
Ekiti	8	5	2	1
Ondo	8	5	3	0
Delta	7	3	2	2
Rivers	7	3	2	2
Taraba	8	8	0	0
Abia	2	2	0	0
Enugu	3	1	2	0
Niger	2	2	0	0
Jigawa	7	7	0	0
Zamfara	4	4	0	0
Benue	1	1	0	0
Anambra	1	0	1	0
Adamawa	1	1	0	0
Plateau	1	1	0	0
Imo	1	1	0	0
Bayelsa	1	1	0	0
Ebonyi	1	1	0	0
Kebbi	1	1	0	0
Kebbi	1	1	0	0
Total	1532	1233	255	44

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed deep concern over a high number of unexplained deaths in the northern state of Kano, amid fears they could be caused by Covid-19.
He has announced an immediate two-week lockdown in Kano, the largest city in the north, after local reports of a big rise in deaths in recent days.

President Buhari announced a gradual easing of lockdown restrictions in Abuja, Lagos and neighbouring Ogun state from next Monday.
But he also said that the government would impose a curfew across the country between 20:00pm and 06:00am, require everyone to wear face masks in public, and stop "non-essential inter-state passenger travel".

Bans on social and religious gatherings will also remain in place.

The federal government would deploy “all the necessary human, material and technical resources” to support Kano state, Buhari said on Monday night.

Doctors in Kano say they have seen a surge in fatal cases of pneumonia. But local authorities have denied that Covid-19 is responsible, variously blaming malaria, meningitis, hypertension and other illnesses for the increased mortality.

However, limited testing facilities, combined with poor infrastructure and communications, means this is likely to be a significant underestimate of the true extent of the disease.

The World Health Organization has warned of 10m cases on the continent within three to six months, though experts say that the death toll could be lower if authorities are able to move swiftly to contain outbreaks of the disease.

“We are at the beginning in Africa,” Dr Mike Ryan, the executive director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said last week.

In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, the government has announced a strategy of “test, treat, trace and isolate” since detecting its first case on 27 February. The country currently has 1,532 cases and a national death toll of 44

However, the strategy has been crippled by a lack of equipment. So far about 10,000 tests have been administered, mainly on people showing symptoms. On Saturday the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s director, Chikwe Ihekweazu, made an open plea for more kits to expand testing.

The commercial and industrial centre of the north, Kano has become the epicentre of coronavirus in northern Nigeria with 115 confirmed coronavirus cases and one death. Its highly dense population is still in lockdown in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.

The only test centre in Kano was closed from Wednesday to Sunday for disinfection after an outbreak of the disease there.

Dr Sani Aliyu, who is the national co-ordinator for the presidential task force on Covid-19, says a team of five medical experts were deployed to Kano to facilitate in reopening the testing centre after it was fumigated.

He also announced that testing will resume immediately while a second testing laboratory will be activated tomorrow, Wednesday, at Bayero University in Kano State.

He explained that the centre was earlier shut in the interest of the workers because it was contaminated and some workers were infected.

He added that the reopening of the centre involved collaborative efforts of NCDC workers who worked night and day to reactivate the laboratory.

April 29, 2020