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26% of Nigeria's Coronavirus cases are from unknown sources - NCDC





The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in a report released yesterday April 22, revealed that about 26% of Nigeria's Coronavirus cases are from unknown sources. 

The health agency disclosed that 26 per cent represented 203 of the 782 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday April 21. 


According to the NCDC,  210 (27 per cent) of the cases involved people with travel history, while 274 (35 per cent) of the cases were contacts of those with travel history. The Centre classified the remaining 95 (12 per cent) of the cases as incomplete.

The report came before the agency confirmed 91 new cases of Coronavirus in the country, bringing the total number of cases to 873. 

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