Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and other southwest states record 2009 COVID-19 cases

Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and other southwest states record 2009 COVID-19 cases

NCDC said on May 9th, Saturday, has recorded 1 cases of Coronavirus in Ekiti State, 5 in Oyo, 2 in Ogun and Lagos State with 97, VAM News has obtained.



By Tunde Olorungbotemi










The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed fresh cases of Coronavirus in the southwest states on Saturday, May 9th except Ondo state with 15 cases and Osun state with 38 cases.


According to the Nigeria centre for Disease Cintrol(NCDC) with Saturday's figure, Ekiti State has recorded 1, 5 in Oyo, 2 in Ogun and Lagos State with 97 new Coronavirus cases, VAM News reports.



This takes the total number of cases recorded in Ekiti state from the beginning of the outbreak to 13.


Also, This takes the cases of Oyo state to 64, Ogun state to 115 cases and Lagos state to 1764 cases even as Nigeria total cases increased to 4151 as at yesternight by NCDC.


No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours and only two states are free from COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, Kogi and Cross River state.










While Lagos state remains the epicentre for disease in the country as cases has continued to increase significantly.

Below is the breakdown of yesterday’s new cases:

239 new cases of #COVID19;

97-Lagos
44-Bauchi
29-Kano
19-Katsina
17-Borno
7-FCT
6-Kwara
5-Oyo
3-Kaduna
3-Sokoto
2-Adamawa
2-Kebbi
2-Plateau
2-Ogun
1-Ekiti


4151 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria.


Discharged: 745.


Deaths: 128.










As at the time of filing this report, these states government are yet to give further details of the latest fresh cases of COVID-19 pandemic in their respective state.