The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 155 new infections of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in the country. xIt said that Lagos led with 60 cases while Katsina came second with 37 infections and Kaduna state came third with 35 cases. Other states with new infections were; Ogun-4, Edo-3, Kwara-3, Rivers-2, Kano-2, Jigawa-1, Oyo-1 and Taraba-1, while the FCT recorded 6 cases. Meanwhile, the agency noted that using antibiotics to treat COVID-19 was inappropriate, stressing that antibiotics only work for bacterial infections, not viruses like COVID-19. The NCDC said that the virus that cause COVID-19 could live on surfaces for several hours.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2020 05:37 UTC