By Chris Udochukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – The Nigeria’s health agency in charge of management and curtailment o f COVID-19, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced the confirmation of 187 new cases on Tuesday.
The NCDC said the 187 patients who tested positive for the novel virus were recorded from thirteen states out of 36 states of the federation including FCT.
The report released via it’s twitter handle listed the states and their respective number of confirmed cases on Tuesday as follows:
Lagos-74
Plateau-25
Rivers-25
Gombe-19
FCT-19
Osun-10
Kaduna-5
Borno-3
Ogun-2
Katsina-2
Nasarawa-1
Bayelsa-1
Edo-1
This new patients who tested positive brought total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria to 58,647 while total discharged Patients are now
49,937.
The report further informed that
1,111 lives have been lost to the novel virus since the index case in February 27 2020.
The state by state breakdown of total confirmed cases are contained in the table below:
