The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), announced 153 new COVID19 infections in the country moving the total confirmed cases to 59,001.
The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday.
The data released by the NCDC, showed that Lagos led with 81 cases of the virus infections, while Rivers recorded 21 cases, and the FCT with 11.
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Other states with new cases were: Ogun-8, Kaduna-7, Oyo-6, Akwa Ibom-5, Osun-3, Katsina-3, Edo-2, Ebonyi-2, Nasarawa-2, Plateau-1 and Kano-1.
According to the health agency a total number of 50,452 patients have recovered from the virus infections while 1,112 have lost their lives to the virus.
The agency said that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, have continued to coordinate the national response activities across the country.
Data from the agency’s site also showed that about 509, 555 sample have been tested by the agency since the pandemic hit Nigeria in February.
Below is the breakdown by states as released by NCDC.
