The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it committed an error in announcing confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country.
It said that the total number of cases in Nigeria as of 10.30 pm on Friday is 209 and not 210 that was earlier reported.
With the correction, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Osun is 20 and Oyo now has nine.
Lagos State retained its lead with 109 cases, followed by the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja which has 41 cases.
CORRECTION 1/4
On 3rd of April 2020, we reported 26 new cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria. An error has been discovered in this report as follows:
โซ๏ธ There were 25 new cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria. The 26th case was a repeat result of a previously confirmed case and NOT a new case pic.twitter.com/oq2FA6zvpY
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 4, 2020
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