By Chris Udochukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – The latest COVID-19 report from the Centre for Disease Control has it that 1,544 fresh cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Friday.
The report released via it’s twitter handle stated that the total confirmed cases have risen to 97,478 out of which 78,552 patients have been discharged from across the various isolation centres in Nigeria.
The health agency further informed that the new cases were reported from 21 states including the FCT as stated below:
Lagos-739
Plateau-168
FCT-153
Oyo-91
Nasarawa-90
Rivers-80
Kaduna-35
Edo-33
Kano-29
Ogun-21
Delta-19
Sokoto-16
Akwa Ibom-11
Ebonyi-11
Enugu-10
Osun-10
Niger-9
Bauchi-8
Kebbi-8
Katrina-2
Taraba-1.
The NCDC report added that 1,342 lives have been lost to COVID-19 related complications since the index case was recorded in Nigeria on the 27th of February, 2020.
The health agency gave the breakdown of total confirmed cases as follows,:
