COVID – 19 UPDATE: NCDC Confirms 410 New Cases, As Toll hits 49895

Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Tuesday, has confirmed new 410 cases of Covid -19.

With the latest toll, total cases have now increased to 49,895 with 37,051 recoveries and 981 casualties across the country.

Also, NCDC in its latest situation report has revealed that overall samples tested nationwide have increased from 352,625 to 355,196 as at August 17.

Meanwhile, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced the inclusion of the Federal Medical Centre GeneXpert laboratory, Gusau, Zamfara state to the NCDC molecular laboratory network.

There are now 64 laboratories with the capacity to test for COVID-19 in the NCDC laboratory network.