The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Saturday admitted that the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria is 209 and not 210 as earlier announced.
The centre made the clarification via its verified Twitter handle, @ncdcgov.
”On 3rd of April 2020, we reported 26 new cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria. An error has been discovered in this report as follows:
”There were 25 new cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria. The 26th case was a repeat result of a previously confirmed case and NOT a new case.
”We regret the error in our announcement of new #COVID19 cases in Nigeria yesterday.
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”The NCDC remains committed to ensuring transparency and accurate reporting of infectious disease cases in Nigeria,” the tweets read.