The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says the country recorded two more COVID-19-related deaths with 210 additional cases in the last 24 hours.
The NCDC, in its latest update on Sunday morning, said the cases were reported in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The data indicates that Nigeria’s total infections from the pandemic currently stands at 204,201 while the fatality toll increased to 2,673.
Breakdown
The breakdown revealed that Lagos State, the epicentre of the disease, recorded 79 cases, followed by Edo with 20, while Anambra ranked third with 19 cases.
Rivers State, Delta and Bayelsa in the South-south recorded 18, six and one cases respectively.
Apart from Lagos, other southwestern states of Ondo, Oyo and Ekiti reported 15, 13 and eight cases respectively.
The FCT also recorded five cases, while Gombe in the North-east recorded 14 cases.
Kaduna and Kano in the North-west recorded 11 and one respectively.
It also noted that Benue, Kano, Nasarawa, Plateau, Sokoto and Zamfara recorded no fresh cases.
The NCDC stated with the new figure, a total of 192,421 patients have so far recovered from COVID-19 in the country.
It added that over 2. 9 million samples of the virus from the nation’s roughly 200 million population have been tested.
The NCDC noted that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
The agency stated that the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country stands at 9,098.
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