Nigeria surpassed a grim milestone of 50,000 coronavirus cases with 593 new confirmed cases and four deaths m on Wednesday night.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which confirmed this on its Twitter handle, said the fresh cases were recorded in 16 states of the federation and the FCT.
The NCDC also added that four persons died from Covid-19 complications on Wednesday.
Consequently, the number of Covid-19 fatalities increases from 981 to 985.
Also, the number of confirmed cases increased from 49895 to 50488.
Meanwhile, 37304 cases have been discharged from various isolation facilities across the country as at on Wednesday night.
The breakdown of the 593 new cases on a state-by-state basis revealed the following: Plateau (186), Lagos (172), FCT (62), Oyo (27), Delta (25), Rivers (20), Ondo (19), Edo (18), Kaduna (17), Enugu (12), Akwa Ibom (10), Ogun (7), Abia (6), Gombe (6), Kano (3) and Osun (3).
The NCDC also stated that “a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, continues to coordinate the national response activities.”
