By Francis Etuko
Abuja (Precise Post) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded 999 new cases of #COVID-19, bringing the total confirmed cases to 79,789 in n Nigeria.
Also, since the index case was reported in February 27, the health agency has treated and discharged 68,879 patients while 1,231 lives have been lost to novel virus pandemic.
According to the report released via it’s twitter handle, the NCDC said the new 999 cases were recorded from 18 out 36 states of the Federation including FCT as follows;
FCT-416
Lagos-324
Kaduna-68
Plateau-42
Kwara-32
Kano-24
Gombe-14
Sokoto-12
Yobe-12
Akwa Ibom-11
Bayelsa-10
Rivers-7
Bauchi-7
Ogun-6
Oyo-5
Edo-4
Taraba-4
Jigawa-1
Below is the breakdown of total confirmed cases for each of the 36 states of the federation including FCT :
