The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has revealed 10 persons have died of coronavirus-related complications in Kano, Ogun, Bauchi, Kaduna and Sokoto States on Friday.
This was made known in NCDC 70th Situation Report on COVID-19 published on Saturday.
According to the report, 10 COVID-19 deaths were recorded in the country as of 11.30 pm on Friday. This brings the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the country to 117.
Of the 117 fatalities, 33 died in Lagos, Kano, 18; FCT, four; Borno, 14; Katsina, eight; Bauchi, one; Ogun, four; Kaduna, two; Sokoto, nine; Jigawa, one; Edo, four; Zamfara, three; Oyo, two; Osun, four; Nasarawa, one; Rivers, two; Delta, three; Akwa Ibom, two; Yobe, one and Ekiti one.
Part of the report read, “386 cases were reported in the last 24 hours in 20 states – Lagos (176), Kano (65), Katsina (31), FCT (20), Borno (17), Bauchi (15), Nasarawa (14), Ogun (13), Plateau (10), Oyo (four), Sokoto (four), Rivers (four), Kaduna (three), Edo (two), Ebonyi (two), Ondo (two), Enugu (one), Imo (one), Gombe (one) and Osun (one).
“No new state recorded a confirmed COVID-19 case in the last 24 hours. The total number of states including FCT that have reported at least one confirmed case in Nigeria is still 35 (34 states + FCT).
“Seventy-eight cases were discharged in the last 24 hours in twelve (12) states – Lagos (42), Gombe (10), Ogun (10), Oyo (three), Sokoto (three), Edo (two), Ekiti (two), Rivers (two), Delta (one), Kano (one), Kwara (one) and Niger (one).
“Ten deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours in five states – Kano (five), Ogun (two), Bauchi (one), Kaduna (one) and Sokoto (one).”
