BREAKING: Nigeria discovers 13 new COVID-19 cases, toll hits 318

On Saturday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed 13 new cases of Coronavirus in the country, TopNaija.ng reports.

NCDC in a tweet on its official Twitter page, disclosed that the confirmed cases were in Lagos, Delta and Kano states. This now brings the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria to 318.

NCDC wrote: “13 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported; 11 in Lagos, 1 in Delta and 1 in Kano State.

“As at 9:30pm April 11, there are 318 confirmed cases of COVID19 in Nigeria. 70 have been discharged with 10 deaths. There are 19 states with confirmed cases in Nigeria.”

13 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 11 in Lagos, 1 in Delta & 1 in Kano

As at 9:30pm 11th April there are 318 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 70 have been discharged with 10 deaths

There are 19 states with confirmed cases in Nigeria pic.twitter.com/xXbp6lX2mS

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 11, 2020

Meanwhile, Top Naija earlier reported that the global death toll from coronavirus has surpassed 100,000.

The worst affected country remains Italy, with 18,849 deaths so far, according to the tally kept by the US-based university. The US is now the second worst-affected country, with 17,925 deaths. Spain is third, with 15,970 deaths.

The tracking platform also revealed that more than 1.6million confirmed cases have been reported from 177 countries in the world, while nearly 370,000 people have recovered from the virus.