Nigeria on Tuesday recorded additional 15 COVID-19 related deaths even as the death toll climbed to 1522, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
In a late-night tweet, the health agency added that 1,303 new cases was also confirmed across the country in the last 24 hrs.
According to the agency,since the Outbreak of the pandemic in February 2020, 124,299 cases have been confirmed out of which 99,276 cases have discharged across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Tuesday’s new cases were reported from 25 and the federal Capital Territory with Lagos recording the highest with 478 new cases followed by FCT with 211 cases.
Other states that reported new cases are : Nasarawa (83), Rivers (72), Kwara (42), Edo 36), Ondo (34), Benue (32), Kaduna (32), Katsina (26), Plateau (26), Kano (25), Taraba (25), Osun (22), Delta (21), Oyo (21), Niger (19), Sokoto (18), Ebonyi (17), Ekiti (14), Gombe (13), Ogun (12), Bauchi (11), Zamfara (8), Borno (4) and Jigawa (1)
