NCDC Says 1,617 New Cases of #COVID-19 in Nigeria
By Ogechi Okorie Abuja (Precise Post) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that 1,617 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Monday in Nigeria. The announcement was contained in a statement released via it’s twitter handle account. The health agency said that the new cases were recorded from 18 states including the FCT as follows: Lagos-776Kaduna-147Kwara-131FCT-102Plateau-78Edo-59Ogun-53Osun-45Rivers-37Taraba-36Nasarawa-34Adamawa-33Kano-26Delta-20Ebonyi-16Bayelsa-11Gombe-11Borno-2. The NCDC further stated that the total confirmed cases have risen to 112,004 out of which 89,939 patients were discharged. This is also as the Centre has informed that a total of 1,449 lives have been lost to COVID-19 related complications since the index case was recorded on February 27, 2020. See the breakdown of the total confirmed cases below:
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