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Nigeria Reports More Cases of COVID-19, Total Now 5445

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  • Nigeria Reports More Cases of COVID-19, Total Now 5445

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday reported more cases of COVID-19 in Africa’s largest economy.

The centre reported 288 new cases of the virus and 3 additional deaths.

“Till date, 5445 cases have been confirmed, 1320 cases have been discharged and 171 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory,” the NCDC stated in its report on Friday.

A further break down of the 288 new cases revealed that it was reported from 15 states- Lagos(179), Kaduna (20), Katsina (15), Jigawa(15), Borno (13), Ogun(11), Kano(8), FCT(7), Niger (4), Ekiti(4), Oyo (3), Delta (3), Bauchi(3), Kwara (2) and Edo(1).

Complete Confirmed Cases by State

States Affected No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) No. of Cases (on admission) No. Discharged No. of Deaths
Lagos 2,278 1,701 541 36
Kano 761 638 90 33
FCT 386 291 88 7
Katsina 239 198 29 12
Bauchi 210 166 41 3
Borno 204 140 44 20
Jigawa 191 184 4 3
Ogun 145 81 59 5
Kaduna 134 78 53 3
Gombe 124 32 90 2
Sokoto 112 46 53 13
Edo 93 61 27 5
Oyo 76 46 28 2
Zamfara 73 39 29 5
Kwara 58 45 12 1
Osun 42 8 30 4
Rivers 33 20 10 3
Yobe 32 28 3 1
Kebbi 31 16 11 4
Nasarawa 29 23 5 1
Delta 25 12 9 4
Plateau 21 17 4 0
Adamawa 21 10 11 0
Ekiti 19 5 13 1
Ondo 19 7 11 1
Taraba 17 16 1 0
Akwa Ibom 16 2 12 2
Niger 14 12 2 0
Enugu 12 10 2 0
Ebonyi 9 8 1 0
Imo 7 5 2 0
Bayelsa 6 3 3 0
Benue 4 4 0 0
Anambra 2 1 1 0
Abia 2 1 1 0

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