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Coronavirus: total Nigeria cases and deaths, real-time map

Updates on the total number of registered Covid-19 cases, deaths and discharged patients, both in Nigeria and across the world.

Update:
A man awaits customers as he stands at his noodle cafe while authorites continue the 14 days lockdown in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID 19) in Abuja, Nigeria  April 5, 2020.  Picture taken April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
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Confirmed Nigeria coronavirus cases

As of 01:30 WAT on Wednesday 8 April (02:30 CEST), there had been 254 confirmed coronavirus cases and six deaths in Nigeria, while 44 people in the country have recovered after contracting Covid-19.

Nigeria plans to create $1.39 billion coronavirus fund

Nigeria plans to create a 500 billion naira ($1.39 billion)coronavirus fund to strengthen its healthcare infrastructure to tackle the virus, the government said on Saturday.

Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed, House of Representatives speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and Senate President Ahmad Lawan agreed in a meeting that the crisis intervention fund would pull in cash as loans from various special government accounts and get the rest from grants and loans from unilateral institutions, a statement said.

Worldwide real-time coronavirus map

Click here if the map doesn't automatically appear. (Map created and hosted by Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, our thanks to them.)

Worldwide coronavirus cases

The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide at the above time stood at 1,426,096. In total, 81,865 people have died from Covid-19, while 300,054 have recovered from the disease.

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