On the 24th of May 2020, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control announced that 313 new confirmed cases and 5 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.

No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.
Till date, 7839 cases have been confirmed, 2263 cases have been discharged and 226 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory

The 313 new cases are reported from 17 states- Lagos (148), FCT (36), Rivers (27), Edo (19), Kano (13), Ogun (12), Ebonyi (11), Nasarawa (, Delta (, Oyo (7), Plateau (6), Kaduna (5), Kwara (4), Akwa Ibom (3), Bayelsa (3), Niger (2), Anambra (1)

Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa has conducted about 44,458 tests for the virus. Of the total confirmed cases, NCDC noted 2263 patients were lucky to recover from the infection and unfortunately, 226 people lost their lives to the virus.

Since 31 December 2019 and as of 24 May 2020, 5 273 572 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries) have been reported, including 341 722 deaths.
Cases have been reported from:

Africa: 108 265 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are South Africa (21 343), Egypt (16 613), Algeria (8 113), Nigeria (7 526) and Morocco (7 406).
Asia : 927 408 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are Turkey (155 686), Iran (133 521), India (131 868), China (84 084) and Saudi Ara...
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