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Religion of Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Catholic Church donates health facilities as isolation centres

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The Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria has offered all its 425 health facilities as isolation centres for COVID-19.

This announcement was made by the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, SGF Boss Mustapha in Abuja.



So far, Nigeria’s tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose to 4,641 as 242 new infections were announced Monday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

The country recorded an additional 10 deaths, NCDC reported.

The agency in a late evening tweet said the new cases were reported from 14 states. These are Lagos, Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Ogun, Gombe, Adamawa, FCT, Ondo, Oyo, Rivers, Zamfara, Borno and Bauchi States.

The number of infections in the country has been increasing at a rapid rate.