By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control yesterday announced that the total COVID-19 patients treated and discharged in the country have risen to 71,937.
It also confirmed that another 749 fresh infections were recorded on Tuesday across eighteen states of the federation including the FCT.
The health agency which disclosed this via it’s twitter handle account gave the affected states as:
Lagos-299
Plateau-131
Kaduna-83
FCT-74
Kwara-35
Sokoto-26
Edo-18
Kano-17
Katsina-16
Delta-11
Nasarawa-10
Ondo-9
Bauchi-9
Rivers-5
Akwa Ibom-3
Jigawa-1
Osun-1
Ekiti-1.
The report further stated that the total confirmed cases is now 85,560 While
1,267 lives had been lost to COVID-19 related complications.
It gave the breakdown of total confirmed cases by states as follows:
