Nigeria records 443 new cases of COVID-19, total hits 45687

As Nigeria continues its fight against Coronavirus, 443 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded on Friday night, totalling 45,687 confirmed cases.

This was revealed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on its official Twitter page.

According to NCDC’s tweet, 32,637 patients have now been discharged, with 936 patients losing their lives to the coronavirus.

The tweet revealed that Plateau State had the highest number of infections on Friday night with 103 cases, with Lagos State following with 70 cases.

Other states read as follows:

FCT-60  Ondo-35  Edo-27  Rivers-27  Kaduna-20  Osun-19  Borno-18  Oyo-18  Kwara-11 Adamawa-9 Nasarawa-7 Gombe-6  Bayelsa-4  Imo-4  Bauchi-2  Ogun-2  Kano-1

In a related story, WITHIN NIGERIA reported that Pastor David Oyedepo, the presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, has declared that very soon the world will realise that they have been deceived by the Coronavirus outrage as it is a mere noise from hell.

He threw his weight behind the purported discovery of Dr. Stella Immanuel that antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and antibacterial drug, Zithromax, were effective cures for the virus.

Oyedepo who spoke at the Covenant Hour of Prayer programme of his church, said that the coronavirus is a mere noise from hell.