JUST IN: 5 new Coronavirus cases as Nigeria hits 70

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced five new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, as at 8pm Friday.

Out of the five three are in FCT while two are in Oyo State.

“As at 08:00 pm 27th March, there are 70 cases of confirmed #COVID19 reported Nigeria. Three have been discharged with one death,” NCDC stated on its Twitter handle a while ago.

Meanwhile, Lagos remains stable at 44 cases while FCT has 14, Ogun 3, Ekiti 1, Oyo 3, Edo 1, Bauchi 2, Osun 1 and Rivers 1.

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