The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday announced that Nigeria recorded its highest daily figure of confirmed cases of COVID-19, as 745 new infections were reported, increasing the total tally of infected people in the country to 18,480.
It was revealed that of the 745 new cases, Lagos State had the highest number of infections for the day with 280 cases, followed by Oyo and Ebonyi states with 103 and 72 cases respectively.
Other states with infections for the day include: FCT (60); Imo (46); Edo (34); Delta (33); Rivers (25); Kaduna (23); Ondo (16); Katsina (12); Kano (10); Bauchi (8); and Borno (7).
Six deaths were recorded from the virus on Thursday bringing the total number of confirmed deaths from the virus to 475 while 6307 have recovered and have been discharged.
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Nigeria in February 2020, NCDC said 106, 006 samples have been tested across the nation, 18,480 confirmed cases have been registered, while there are 11,669 active cases as at the time of this report. Although, 475 deaths have been recorded across the nation 6,307 have recovered and have been discharged.
A breakdown of the 18, 480 confirmed cases shows that Lagos State has so far reported 7, 896 cases, followed by FCT – 1,451, Kano – 1,170, Oyo – 764, Edo – 729, Rivers – 721, Ogun – 586, Kaduna – 490, Borno – 457 Gombe – 447, Bauchi – 438, Katsina – 426, Delta – 400, Jigawa – 317, Ebonyi – 234, Imo – 205, Plateau – 186, Nasarawa – 178, Kwara – 177, Abia – 173, Sokoto – 135, Bayelsa – 111, Ondo – 105, Enugu – 95, Zamfara – 76, Kebbi – 67, Anambra – 66, Niger – 66, Yobe – 56, Osun – 51, Akwa Ibom – 48, Adamawa – 42, Benue – 36, Ekiti – 30, Taraba – 18, Taraba – 18, and Kogi – 3.
