By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Nigeria, the most populous country in africa on Monday recorded 56 new cases of #COVID-19, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said.
The report released by the NCDC said this brought the total confirmed cases in the country to 66,439 out of which 62,241 patients have been treated and discharged.
It further revealed that 1,168 lives have been lost to the COVID-19 related complications since the index case in 27 February 2020.
“The new infections were recorded from ten states including FCT as follows:
Kaduna-18
FCT-17
Lagos-6
Plateau-5
Kano-3
Kwara-2
Yobe-2
Ekiti-1
Niger-1
Rivers-1
The NCDC also gave the state by state breakdown of total confirmed cases as below:
