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COVID-19: 238 New Cases in Nigeria; Total Now 2170

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  • COVID-19: 238 New Cases in Nigeria; Total Now 2170

More Nigerians are getting infected by COVID-19, according to recent reports from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

The centre for disease reported 238 new cases on Friday to take the total number of confirmed cases in the last one week to 1,297 and 2170 since the outbreak.

Death tolls rose by 10 or 17.24 percent in 24 hours to 68, up from 58 reported on Thursday.

However, the number of patients discharged also surged by 32 to 351.

Breaking down the 238 new cases, 92 of the cases were confirmed in Kano. While 36 were in FCT, 30 in Lagos, 16 in Gombe, 10 in Bauchi, 8 in Delta, 6 in Oyo, 5 in Zamfara, 5 in Sokoto, 4 in Ondo, 4 in Nasarawa, 3 in Kwara, 3 in Edo, 3 in Ekiti, 3 in Borno, 3 in Yobe, 2 in Adamawa, 1 in Niger, 1 in Imo, 1 in Ebonyi, 1 in Rivers and 1 in Enugu.

Here is a complete breakdown of all confirmed cases by state

States Affected No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) No. of Cases (on admission) No. Discharged No. of Deaths
Lagos 1,006 753 225 28
Kano 311 308 0 3
FCT 214 175 36 3
Gombe 92 92 0 0
Borno 69 63 0 6
Ogun 56 47 8 1
Bauchi 48 42 6 0
Edo 47 34 10 3
Sokoto 41 33 1 7
Katsina 40 32 6 2
Kaduna 35 28 6 1
Osun 34 13 18 3
Oyo 29 18 9 2
Delta 17 11 4 2
Akwa Ibom 16 4 10 2
Kwara 14 12 2 0
Rivers 14 10 2 2
Ondo 13 10 3 0
Ekiti 11 8 2 1
Zamfara 9 8 0 1
Taraba 8 8 0 0
Jigawa 7 6 0 1
Nasarawa 7 7 0 0
Bayelsa 5 5 0 0
Yobe 4 4 0 0
Enugu 4 2 2 0
Adamawa 4 4 0 0
Niger 3 3 0 0
Ebonyi 3 3 0 0
Imo 2 2 0 0
Abia 2 2 0 0
Kebbi 2 2 0 0
Anambra 1 0 1 0
Plateau 1 1 0 0
Benue 1 1 0 0

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