By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – The latest COVID-19 report released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed that 156 new cases have been recorded in Nigeria.
This new cases brought total confirmed infections figure to 54,743 and total discharged cases to 42,816, the health agency added.
The NCDC’s report released via it’s twitter handle further confirmed that 1,051 lives have been lost to COVID-19 related complications since the index case in February.
As happened on Thursday, Lagos state again beat the other 16 states with 36 new cases to emerge first on the infection list.
Below is what the states reported on Friday:
Lagos-36
FCT-35
Oyo-29
Kaduna-10
Abia-9
Osun-5
Ogun-5
Enugu-5
Rivers-4
Nasarawa-3
Ekiti-3
Imo-3
Edo-2
Kwara-2
Katsina-2
Plateau-2
Niger-1
While the total cases recorded by each of the 36 states of the federation and FCT is as follows:
