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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.

The Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has offered all its 425 health facilities across the country to be used as isolation centres for COVID-19, SGF, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at the #PTFCOVID19 daily briefing today in Abuja. #COVID19Nigeria
— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) May 11, 2020

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.