Nigeria Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic cases on Wednesday, increased by 38 per cent in one day to 276.

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According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Twenty-two new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 15 in Lagos, 4 in the FCT, 2 in Bauchi, 1 in Edo.

This is also coming even as the 15-member medical team from China arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on a chattered Air Peace aircraft Wednesday evening.

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The medical personnel landed around 5:15 pm and were received by the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Zhou Pingjian; Executive Director, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, Mr Jacques Liao, senior officials of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Health and others.

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The personnel, are experts in infectious diseases, respiratory illness, intensive care, cardiology, neurology, general surgery and anesthesiology, were all wearing face masks as they filed out of the aircraft.

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Meanwhile, the NCDC in a tweet stated that, “The Twenty-two new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 15 in Lagos, 4 in the FCT, 2 in Bauchi, 1 in Edo

“As at 09:00pm 8th April there are 276 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Fourty-four have been discharged with six deaths

“As at 09:00 pm 8th April, there are 276 confirmed cases, 44 discharged and six deaths.”

A breakdown of the development shows that, Lagos leads with 145 cases, followed by FCT, 54, Osun- 20, Oyo- 11 and Edo- 12.

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Others include Bauchi- 8, Akwa Ibom- 5, Kaduna- 5, Ogun- 4, Enugu- 2, Ekiti- 2, Rivers-2, Benue- 1, Ondo- 1, Kwara- 2, Delta- 1 and Katsina-1.

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