By Chris Udochukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Wednesday confirmed 146 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
The NCDC disclosed this in its latest report released via it’s twitter handle. It noted that the fresh infections were recorded from eleven states including the FCT as follows:
Lagos-62; FCT-23; Kaduna-21; Ogun and Rivers -12 each and Ondo-5.
Others are: Oyo and Plateau-3 each; Bauchi and Katsina-2 each and Kano-1.
According to the health agency, this brought the total confirmed cases in the country to 65,839 out of which 61,573 have been treated and discharged from across the various isolation facilities in Nigeria.
The NCDC however, reported that 1,165 lives have been lost to the COVID-19 related ailments.
It further gave the breakdown of total confirmed cases in each of the 36 states of the federation including the FCT as follows:
