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-776
Kaduna-147
Kwara-131
FCT-102
Plateau-78
Edo-59
Ogun-53
Osun-45
Rivers-37
Taraba-36
Nasarawa-34
Adamawa-33
Kano-26
Delta-20
Ebonyi-16
Bayelsa-11
Gombe-11
Borno-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:
