Nigeria on Thursday, announced that it has recorded 476 fresh COVID-19 cases with seven more deaths, which brings the fatality figure to 992.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) revealed the latest COVID-19 figures in a tweet on its official Twitter handle.
In recent times, Nigeria had reported fewer confirmed cases, however, Thursday’s new infections – in 17 states and the Federal Capital Territory – takes the total cases in the country to 50,964.
The country’s COVID-19 epicentre, Lagos, again, recorded the highest number of fresh cases – 235 – followed by the FCT with 44 more infections, a trend we have become accustomed to.
NCDC’s new data from the pandemic showed that Kaduna State had 41 new cases, Borno – 33, Plateau – 28, Abia – 13, Edo – 13; Rivers -12, Imo – 11, Oyo – 10 and Kano – 9.
Seven more persons were infected with the virus in Kwara, Enugu – 5, Katsina – 5, Gombe – 4, Ogun – 4, Nasarawa -1 and Zamfara – 1.
Even though the casualty number is right more to a thousand, 37,569 persons who contracted the disease have been successfully treated and discharged.
As at 11:15 pm, August 20th, 2020, Nigeria has 12,403 active cases from COVID-19.
“476 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-235 FCT-44 Kaduna-41 Borno-33 Plateau-28 Abia-13 Edo-13 Rivers-12 Imo-11 Oyo-10 Kano-9 Kwara-7 Enugu-5 Katsina-5 Gombe-4 Ogun-4 Nasarawa-1 Zamfara-1 50,964 confirmed 37,569 discharged 992 deaths.”
