The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, on Sunday confirmed 170 new cases of Coronavirus in the country.

NCDC made the confirmation in a tweet via its Twitter handle, stating that Nigeria now has a total number of 2558 confirmed cases.

The tweet read “170 new cases of #COVID19;

39-Lagos
29-Kano
24-Ogun
18-Bauchi
15-Kaduna
12-FCT
12-Sokoto
8-Katsina
7-Borno
3-Nasarawa
2-Adamawa
1-Oyo

“2558 cases of COVID19 confirmed in Nigeria, 400 patients have been discharged, with 87 deaths recorded.”