The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 216 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in some states of the country.
The NCDC who disclosed this in a tweet Wednesday night said the released record of new COVID-19 cases are in fifteen states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Breakdown of the new cases shows that Plateau has the highest number – 59, followed by Rivers, Abia, and Lagos which have 27, 22, and 20 more infections respectively.
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Others are Oyo – 18, Enugu – 17, Kaduna – 11, FCT – 11, Ogun – 10, Ebonyi – four, Osun – four, Ekiti – four, Delta – three, Edo – three, Akwa Ibom – two, and Bauchi – one.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country since Nigeria reported its first infection in February to 54,463.
Similarly, those who have lost the battle to COVID-19 in Nigeria increased by four, raising the death toll from the disease to 1,027.
