Nigeria has recorded 163 more COVID-19 cases in the past
24 hours while discharging 24 patients that have recovered from the
virus.
This was disclosed on Sunday night by the Nigeria Centre for
Disease Control.
According to the NCDC, the new cases were recorded in 11 states
with Lagos having the highest figure of 113 cases.
Other states were Kaduna with 21, Osun with eight, Ondo and Oyo
with five, Ogun with three, Bayelsa and Taraba with two, Edo,
Katsina, Plateau, Katsina and FCT each having one case.
With the new infections, Nigeria now has a total caseload of
60,266. Of that figure, however, 51,735 have recovered while 1,115
have, unfortunately, died.
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Lagos State has remained the epicentre of the virus with nearly
20,022 cases.
163 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-113 Kaduna-21 Osun-8 Ondo-5 Oyo-5 Ogun-3 Bayelsa-2
Taraba-2 Edo-1 FCT-1 Katsina-1 Plateau-160,266 confirmed 51,735 discharged 1,115 deaths
pic.twitter.com/wCIDrwsCjW— NCDC (@NCDCgov) October 11, 2020
Since the virus emerged in China late last year, it has killed
over one million worldwide, infected over 36 million, and forced
millions out of work as the pandemic batters the global
economy.
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