The NCDC made the confirmation on Friday on its Twitter handle.
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Its Director-General, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, made this known at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 media briefing in Abuja.
The figures formed part of the data released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday on its Twitter handle.
The NCDC on its official Twitter handle said June 2, 2020 also witnessed 15 COVID-19 related deaths in the country.
Bello, who gave the order on Monday while briefing newsmen in Government House, Lokoja, said the lockdown, which was to commence from 12am on Tuesday, would enable verification and authenticity of the claims.
The News Agency of Nigeria eports that the JUTH chapter of the union had on May 25 ordered its members to embark on a sit-at-home protest for its members working in its isolation centre over what it called negligence of their welfare.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Saka Haruna Audu, disputed the results in a statement he issued on Thursday.
At the meeting, which was held on Wednesday in Abuja, the Federal Government was represented by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.
The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday in Abuja.
This is coming as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced over the weekend that the total number of cases have exceeded the 8,000 mark across the country.
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of NCDC, told News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that the agency was pleased with the activation of the two laboratories for inclusion in its molecular laboratory network.
Tayo Haastrup, Deputy Director and Head of Information and Protocol for the hospital, said this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.
The validation took place on Thursday in the laboratory of the National Biotechnology Development Agency in Abuja.
The Federal High Court in Abuja has declined a request by Senator Dino Melaye for a restraining order against the House of Representatives in relation to its planned consideration of the controversial Control of Infectious Diseases Bill, 2020, otherwise known as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Bill.
A team of doctors, anaesthetists and nurses at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos has delivered another COVID-19 patient of twins.
According to an analysis carried out by P+ Measurement services for Week 3 of May, Nigeria recorded a total of 1,565 new cases of the novel virus, 816 discharged cases and a total of 39 deaths.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it will provide guidance for businesses to take responsibility and re-open safely, as it continues to work to stop the spread of Coronavirus.
The private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 has donated more extraction kits and silicon swabs to the National Centre for Disease Control to increase the number of COVID-19 tests by 32,500 in the country.
I write on behalf of Lawyers Alert, a human rights nonprofit organization in Nigeria, regarding one Mrs. Susan Okpe, a female Nigerian who has been under your care in the isolation centre, Abuja for over 50 days as at the time of writing this letter.
Four new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Niger State out of the 26 results received from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.