Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday night confirms 920 new coronavirus cases, 300 successfully treated patients and 6 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The health agency made the announcement via its Twitter page with the new cases recorded in 17 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The breakdown of the new cases are as follows; Lagos-308, FCT-207, Kaduna-179, Plateau-46, Niger-43, Adamawa-26, Sokoto-18, Rivers-16, Yobe-15, Enugu-13, Kano-13, Ogun-12, Delta-10, Edo-5, Osun-3, Oyo-3, Anambra-2 and Ekiti-1.
920 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-308
FCT-207
Kaduna-179
Plateau-46
Niger-43
Adamawa-26
Sokoto-18
Rivers-16
Yobe-15
Enugu-13
Kano-13
Ogun-12
Delta-10
Edo-5
Osun-3
Oyo-3
Anambra-2
Ekiti-177,933 confirmed
67,784 discharged
1,218 deaths pic.twitter.com/51wz4Lw5JC— NCDC (@NCDCgov) December 19, 2020
Our discharges today include 115 community recoveries in Kaduna State and 104 community recoveries in Lagos State managed in line with guidelines.
A breakdown of cases by state can be found via https://t.co/zQrpNeOfet pic.twitter.com/sbCWAdUNUn
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) December 19, 2020
With the new toll, the total number of cases in the country has now increased from 77,013 to 77,933 while figure of discharged patients moved from 67,484 to 67,784.
A total of 1218 deaths have now been recorded thus far in Africa’s most populous country as 8 new deaths was reported in the last 24 hours.
Also, Nigeria has so far tested over 800,000 of its 200 million population for the virus
