Nigeria has recorded 126 new cases of COVID-19, bringing to 56,604 the number of confirmed cases in the country.
It has also recorded three COVID-19 related deaths within the last 24 hours, raising the tally from 1,088 to 1,091 in a single day.
Announcing this yesterday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded 37 new cases; Lagos, 27; Plateau, 16; Kaduna, nine; Abia, seven; Gombe and Ondo six each; Imo, five; Delta, Ekiti, Kwara and Oyo, two each; while Bauchi, Kano, Katsina, Ogun, and Yobe recorded one case each.
It said: “Nigeria has so far recorded 56,604 confirmed cases of COVID-19. 47,872 patients have been discharged, while 1,091 have died.”
126 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
FCT-37
Lagos-27
Plateau-16
Kaduna-9
Abia-7
Gombe-6
Ondo-6
Imo-5
Delta-2
Ekiti-2
Kwara-2
Oyo-2
Bauchi-1
Kano-1
Katsina-1
Ogun-1
Yobe-156,604 confirmed
47,872 discharged
1,091 deaths pic.twitter.com/r8TbTBrnhr— NCDC (@NCDCgov) September 16, 2020
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