Nigeria has recorded 51 new cases of coronavirus, bringing total infected in the country to 493.
In a tweet on Friday night, the NCDC said of the news cases, 32 were recorded in Lagos, 6 in Kano, 5 in Kwara, 2 each in the Federal Capital Territory and Oyo, and 1 each in Ogun and Ekiti.
So far 59 patients have been discharged while the number of deaths from the virus now stands at 17.
Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari has died more than two weeks after he tested positive for Coronavirus.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced Mr. Kyari’s death on Twitter.
News that Mr. Kyari had tested positive for COVID-19 first broke on March 24, about 10 days after he returned from a trip to Germany during which he met with officials of Siemens in Munich on Nigeria’s electricity expansion programme.
The 81-year-old from Kanuri, Borno state, was one of President’s Buhari’s closest allies and appointed Chief of Staff in August 2015.
The Federal Government has said it is working out a stimulus package that will take the country’s economy out of global recession to positive growth in 2021.
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The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, ZAINAB AHMED, said this while fielding questions from Journalists in Abuja, following a meeting of the Economic Sustainability Committee presided over by Vice-President YEMI OSINBAJO.
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AHMED stated that the global economy would go into recession in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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According to her, the prediction of the International Monetary Fund that Nigeria would go into a negative growth of 3.4 per cent next year is based on an assessment of the National Bureau of Statistics.
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The minister, however, noted that the stimulus package being worked out by the economic sustainability committee would be approved by the President before it would be announced to Nigerians.
Nigeria has recorded Thirty-five new cases of COVID-19, bringing the country’s total infections to 442.
The NCDC confirmed this last night via a statement on Twitter.
According to the agency, of the 35 cases, 19 were found in Lagos, 9 in the FCT, 5 in Kano and 2 in Oyo state.
A total of 152 persons have, however, been discharged while 13 deaths have so far been recorded in the country.
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