Nigeria on Friday hit 58,000 COVID-19 cases after recording fresh 213 new cases of coronavirus in the country.
The country also recorded two new deaths as a result of the virus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), who made this known via a tweet on its official Twitter handle.
The country has now recorded, in total, 58,062 new cases of the novel coronavirus, with 49,606 cases discharged and 1,103 deaths reported across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Friday’s new cases were reported from 17 states, including Lagos (51), Plateau (51), FCT (29), Rivers (18), Ondo (12), Oyo (9), Osun (8), Gombe (7), Ogun (7), Kaduna (5), Enugu (4), Edo (3), Jigawa (3), Kano (3), Benue (1), Delta (1), Sokoto (1).