Lagos State has recorded three more deaths related to coronavirus complications.
This was announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Saturday in its regular COVID-19 Situation report, this one was numbered ’77’.
According to the NCDC, 288 infections were recorded in 15 states in the past 24 hours.
NCDC said Lagos state currently has 1,701 active cases while 541 patients have been discharged and 36 dead.
Part of the report read, “288 confirmed cases were reported in the last 24 hours in 15 states – Lagos (179), Kaduna (20), Jigawa (15), Katsina (15), Borno (13), Ogun (11), Kano (8), FCT (7), Ekiti (4),
Niger (4), Bauchi (3), Delta (3), Oyo (3), Kwara (2) and Edo (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).
“140 cases were discharged in the last 24 hours in 14 states – Kaduna (36), Borno (24), Bauchi (16), Sokoto (13), Oyo (12), Zamfara (11), FCT (6), Rivers (5), Adamawa (4), Ekiti (4), Gombe (3), Kano (3), Ogun (2) and Ebonyi (1).
“Four deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours in two states – Lagos (three) and Gombe (one).”
Looking further into the breakdown of cases in Nigeria, by NCDC’s data, it states that over 41 per cent of COVID-19 cases were reported in Lagos, with 14 per cent in Kano and seven per cent in Abuja.
It also showed that about 41 per cent of patients discharged in Nigeria were treated in Lagos.
