By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Nigeria’s epicentre of COVID-19, Lagos State, accounted for 84 out of 155 fresh cases of recorded on Wednesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said.
According the report released by the NCDC via it’s twitter handle, total confirmed cases have risen to 59,738 out of which 51,403 patients have been treated and discharged.
The health agency also said that the total death toll ocassion by COVID-19 related complications since the index case was recorded on 27th February stood at 1,113.
The NCDC noted that only eight states including the FCT reported COVID-19 infections as follows:
Lagos-84
Rivers-31
Kaduna-12
Osun-10
FCT-7
Oyo-6
Ogun-3
Kwara-2
It gave the state by state breakdown of total infections thus:
