By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Thursday confirmed 212 new cases of #COVID-19 even as it announced that the death toll is now 1,162.
The report released via NCDC’s twitter handle showed that the new cases were recorded from 17 out of the 36 states of the federation including the FCT as follows:
Lagos-71
Imo-26
Plateau-26
FCT-19
Ondo-17
Kaduna-14
Rivers-9
Oyo-9
Katsina-6
Osun-4
Bauchi-2
Ekiti-2-
Nasarawa-2
Ogun-2
Kano-1
Kwara-1
Taraba-1
According to the health agency, this new infections brought the total confirmed cases to 64,728 out of which 60,790 patients have been discharged from various isolation centres across the country.
See the stated breakdown of total confirmed cases: