BREAKING: COVID-19 confirmed cases now 56,735 in Nigeria

BREAKING: COVID-19 confirmed cases now 56,735 in Nigeria

Nigeria now has confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 131 new cases recorded on Thursday night.

According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, 48,092 patients have now been discharged, with 1,093 patients losing their lives to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The tweet revealed that Lagos State had the highest number of infections on Thursday night with 45 cases each, with Kaduna State following with 17 cases.

Other states read as follow:

Plateau-17

FCT-16

Delta-6

Niger-6

Kwara-5

Oyo-3

Akwa Ibom-2

Cross River-2

Ekiti-2

Enugu-2

Osun-2

Sokoto-2

Bauchi-1

Ebonyi-1

Katsina-1

Rivers-1

131 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-45Kaduna-17Plateau-17FCT-16Delta-6Niger-6Kwara-5Oyo-3Akwa Ibom-2Cross River-2Ekiti-2Enugu-2Osun-2Sokoto-2Bauchi-1Ebonyi-1Katsina-1Rivers-1

56,735 confirmed48,092 discharged1,093 deaths pic.twitter.com/A2XC1CNCrn

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) September 17, 2020

 

BREAKING: COVID-19 confirmed cases now 56,735 in Nigeria