The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC has again confirmed 1,544 new cases of Coronavirus in the country even as the second continue to rise.
The health agency revealed this in a late night tweet on friday.
It disclosed that 1,544 new cases were reported from 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the last 24 hours.
Lagos topped the states with new infections, reporting 739 more cases followed by Plateau and the FCT which reported 168 and 153 new cases.
Other States with new cases are: Oyo – 91, Nasarawa – 90, Rivers – 80, Kaduna – 35, Edo – 33, Kano – 29, Ogun – 21, Delta – 19, Sokoto – 16, and Ebonyi – 11.
Others are Akwa Ibom – 11, Enugu – 10, Osun – 10, Niger – nine, Bauchi – eight, Kebbi – eight, Katsina – two, and Taraba – one.
Additional 12 people lost their lives to the virus taking the death toll to 1342.
On the other hand, 575 more people who had been infected were successfully treated and discharged, bringing the recoveries in the country so far to 78,552,
