The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday evening announced that it made an error while computing coronavirus cases for Abuja on Saturday.
The NCDC made this known in a Tweet via its official twitter handle where it also apologized for the error.
It wrote: “On the 9th on May, we announced 45 discharged cases & 4 deaths in FCT.”
“Due to system error, 32 discharged cases and 2 deaths were wrongly announced.”
“Therefore, FCT recorded 13 discharged cases & 2 deaths on May 9 2020.”
“We apologize to @OfficialFCTA for this error.”
248 new cases of #COVID19;
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 10, 2020
81-Lagos
35-Jigawa
26-Borno
26-Kano
20-Bauchi
13-FCT
12-Edo
10-Sokoto
7-Zamfara
4-Kwara
4-Kebbi
2-Gombe
2-Taraba
2-Ogun
2-Ekiti
1-Osun
1-Bayelsa
4399 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 778
Deaths: 143 pic.twitter.com/EXkXbq690g
