[BREAKING NEWS] We've Tested 7,153 For COVID-19 – NCDC

An aggregate of 7,153 people have been tried over all conditions of the organization and the Federal Capital Territory for the feared coronavirus as of Friday evening.

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control revealed the figure in its report on COVID-19 episode in Nigeria for Week 16 which it distributed on Friday.

"As of 6 pm, April 17, 2020, 7,153 samples had been tested for COVID-19 in Nigeria.

“We are working very hard to increase the number of samples tested, including community surveillance in the FCT and Lagos,” the centre said.

It said the sex example of affirmed cases (put at 442 at that point) indicated that a larger number of guys tried positive for the infection than females.

As per the middle, 6,649 people were tried as of Thursday evening.

The new figure of 7,153 demonstrated that 504 examples were tried on Friday alone.

The quantity of males with affirmed cases is put at 314 (71%) while that of females is 128 (29%).

Of the affirmed cases, the NCDC said 210 (48%) had travel narratives; 129 (29%) were contacts; 11 (2%) were of obscure sources while 92 (21%) were "inadequate."

The inside put the all out number of cases all inclusive at 1,991,562 and 130, 885 passings.

As per the report, 20 states (counting Abuja) have recorded affirmed instances of the infection as of the hour of distributing the report.

As indicated by the report, 210 nations are so far influenced.