By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Nigeria Centre for Disease and Control on Wednesday confirmed 930 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
The report released via the agency’s twitter handle said the new infections were recorded from 22 out of 36 states of the federation including the FCT as follows:
Lagos-279
FCT-179
Plateau-62
Kaduna-54
Kano-52
Katsina-52
Imo-42
Jigawa-42
Rivers-38
Kwara-30
Nasarawa-19
Yobe-15
Ogun-13
Borno-10
Oyo-9
Niger-9
Ebonyi-6
Bauchi-6
Edo-5
Taraba-4
Sokoto-2
Cross River-2.
The health agency further revealed that this brought total confirmed cases in the country to 75,062 out of which 66,775 have been discharged.
Adding that 1200 deaths have been recorded in Nigeria since the index case in Nigeria late February 2030.
The health agency gave the states breakdown of total confirmed cases as follows:
