Nigeria now has 89 confirmed cases of coronavirus

Eight  new cases of Coronavirus have been reported from two states of the Federation:  Benue and Lagos.

While one case (indeed the first case) was confirmed in Benue by Governor Samuel Ortom, Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, recorded 7 new cases of the virus.

With this development, Nigeria now has a total of  89 confirmed cases of #COVID19 with 1 death, according to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).