Nigeria is now getting close to the 5,000 mark of Coronavirus cases as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 184 new cases in its latest report.

This brings the total infections in the country to 4,971.

The NCDC confirmed the new figures in a tweet on May 13, 2020.

According to the NCDC, 51 new cases were found in Lagos, 23 in Jigawa, 16 in Bauchi, 14 in Kano, 10 in the FCT, and 10 in Rivers.

Kwara state reported 9 new cases, Delta and Kaduna each had 5 new cases, Sokoto and Oyo had 4 cases; the trio of Kebbi, Nasarawa and Osun reported 3 new cases; Ondo had 2 new cases, while Ebonyi, Edo, Enugu, Anambra, Plateau and Niger all recorded one fresh case each.

1, 070 patients have been discharged while Nigeria has so far recorded 164 deaths from the Coronavirus.