288 New COVID-19 Cases, Total Infections Rises to 5,445

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria rises to 5,445 on Friday night.

Announcing the new development, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the country on Friday May 15, recorded 288 new cases of COVID-19.

The number of fatalities increased by four bringing the total number of deaths to 171 in the last 24 hours.

However, 140 new patients had been discharged from the various treatment centres across the country, total number of people set free of coronavirus now 1,320.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in a tweet stated that the new cases were reported in 14 states and Federal Capital Territory.

The details of the 288 new cases are as follows: 179 cases of the virus were reported in Lagos, 20 cases in Kaduna, while Kastina and Jigawa both had 15 cases each.

Borno recorded 13 cases, 11 cases were found in Ogun, 8 cases in Kano, 7 cases in FCT. Niger and Ekiti also reported 4 cases each.

In Oyo, Delta and Bauchi three cases were reported each, Kwara had two cases and Edo reported one case.

On the 15th of May 2020, 288 new confirmed cases and 4 deaths were recorded in Nigeria
No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.
Till date, 5445 cases have been confirmed, 1320 cases have been discharged and 171 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

On the 14th of May, 4 cases reported from Plateau & 1 case from Akwa Ibom, were repeat cases

Therefore Plateau has a total of 21
cases and Akwa Ibom has a total of 16 cases

We apologise to this State Governments for this error & remain committed to ensuring accurate reporting pic.twitter.com/6ZnkPUPPst

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 15, 2020

Earlier on Friday, the Chairman of the country’s task force overseeing efforts to combat the virus, urged recovered patients not to give out details of their treatments in order to dissuade self-medication.

“We shall continue to encourage all Nigerians that see the symptoms to test, and if positive, go into the isolation centre for care by experts,” he said.

Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, also announced that five states in Nigeria are participating in a World Health Organisation trial.

“At the end of this, relevant authorities will make statements on acceptable drugs for treating COVID-19,” he said.

May 15, 2020