Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 452 new cases of Coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 21,371.
This was disclosed on Tuesday night by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on its verified Twitter handle.
NCDC said, “On the 22nd of June 2020, 675 new confirmed cases and 7 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.
“No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.
“Till date, 20919 cases have been confirmed, 7109 cases have been discharged and 525 deaths have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
“The 675 new cases are reported from 21 states- Lagos(288), Oyo(76), Rivers(56), Delta(31), Ebonyi(30), Gombe(28), Ondo(20), Kaduna(20), Kwara(20), Ogun(17), FCT(16), Edo(13), Abia(10), Nasarawa(9), Imo(9),Bayelsa(8), Borno(8), Katsina(8), Sokoto(3), Bauchi(3), Plateau(2).”
The health agency also said, with the newly recorded 8 deaths, the number of mortalities has risen to 533, while 7,338 people have been discharged from various isolation centres around the country after full recovery.
Here is the breakdown of the number of cases in 35 states and the federal capital territory;
| States Affected | No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) | No. of Cases (on admission) | No. Discharged | No. of Deaths |
| Lagos | 9,073 | 7,490 | 1,457 | 126 |
| FCT | 1,605 | 1,078 | 497 | 30 |
| Kano | 1,190 | 395 | 744 | 51 |
| Oyo | 1,055 | 755 | 291 | 9 |
| Rivers | 930 | 455 | 440 | 35 |
| Edo | 797 | 522 | 243 | 32 |
| Ogun | 699 | 261 | 422 | 16 |
| Kaduna | 608 | 290 | 308 | 10 |
| Delta | 606 | 450 | 136 | 20 |
| Bauchi | 497 | 139 | 347 | 11 |
| Gombe | 479 | 186 | 278 | 15 |
| Borno | 477 | 70 | 376 | 31 |
| Katsina | 434 | 173 | 239 | 22 |
| Jigawa | 317 | 120 | 191 | 6 |
| Ebonyi | 264 | 41 | 222 | 1 |
| Plateau | 253 | 98 | 148 | 7 |
| Abia | 252 | 156 | 93 | 3 |
| Imo | 246 | 222 | 21 | 3 |
| Kwara | 200 | 72 | 122 | 6 |
| Nasarawa | 193 | 93 | 94 | 6 |
| Bayelsa | 177 | 126 | 40 | 11 |
| Ondo | 162 | 86 | 59 | 17 |
| Enugu | 160 | 124 | 31 | 5 |
| Sokoto | 138 | 8 | 116 | 14 |
| Zamfara | 76 | 0 | 71 | 5 |
| Kebbi | 67 | 21 | 40 | 6 |
| Osun | 67 | 16 | 46 | 5 |
| Anambra | 66 | 6 | 51 | 9 |
| Niger | 66 | 26 | 37 | 3 |
| Akwa Ibom | 65 | 20 | 43 | 2 |
| Yobe | 56 | 3 | 45 | 8 |
| Benue | 47 | 31 | 15 | 1 |
| Adamawa | 45 | 3 | 37 | 5 |
| Ekiti | 35 | 5 | 28 | 2 |
| Taraba | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 |
| Kogi | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Meanwhile, many analysts and observers have argued that the official COVID-19 numbers lag behind the on-the-ground reality.
While speaking on phone to KAFTAN Post on Tuesday night, Simidele Odimayo, a University of Medicine (UNIMED) professor of infectious disease said;
“Prowling out there is a possible second wave of infection, and the danger is that the wave will be detected only when it’s about to peak as the number of COVID-19 related deaths are obviously more than what is currently being brandished at the official quarter.
According to the erudite Professor, while the country is swimming in statistics, trends, models, projections, infection rates, and death tolls, he said everyone who specialises in interpreting data has been struggling to make sense of the official numbers we see daily.
