Another six patients have died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos, Delta, Edo, Ogun, Rivers, and Sokoto states.
On Sunday evening, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced five COVID-19 deaths, while Lagos had a patient die from COVID-19 on Monday. This brings to a total of six deaths from coronavirus-related fatalities in the past 24 hours.
For Lagos State, this new death brings the total number of deaths to 47.
Lagos State Government made this disclosure via its Twitter handle, “Total number of #COVID19 discharged patients is now 738. Lagos recorded one more COVID-19 related death. Total number of COVID-19 related deaths in Lagos now stands at 47.”
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday evening said via a tweet, “313 confirmed cases were reported in the last 24 hours in seventeen 17 states – Lagos (148), FCT (36), Rivers (27), Edo (19), Kano (13), Ogun (12), Ebonyi (11), Delta (8), Nasarawa (8), Oyo (7), Plateau (6), Kaduna (5), Kwara (4), Akwa Ibom (3), Bayelsa (3), Niger (2) and Anambra (1).
“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).
“Eighty-nine (89) cases were discharged in the last 24 hours in eleven (11) states – Lagos (31), Kaduna (16), Gombe (13), Sokoto (10), Rivers (7), Ebonyi (4), Borno (3), Ogun (2), Delta (1), Edo (1) and FCT (1).
“Five were recorded in the last 24 hours in five states – Delta (one), Edo (one), Ogun (one), Rivers (one) and Sokoto (one).”