The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 594 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 22,614.
This was made known by the NCDC via its verified Twitter handle on Thursday evening.
The agency said, “On the 25th of June 2020, 594 new confirmed cases and 7 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.
“No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.
“The 594 new cases are reported from 22 states- Lagos(159), Delta(106), Ondo(44), FCT(34), Edo(34), Oyo(33), Kaduna(33) Enugu(28), Katsina (25), Imo(22), Adamawa(15), Ogun(12), Osun(11), Abia(8), Rivers (6), Nasarawa(5), Bauch(5), Niger(5), Kebbi(4), Ekiti(3), Plateau (1), Taraba(1).”
“Till date, 22614 cases have been confirmed, 7822 cases have been discharged and 549 deaths have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Data obtained from the NCDC’s website by KAFTAN Post also revealed that Nigeria currently has 14,243 active COVID-19 cases.
The breakdown of the confirmed cases and their affected cases is shown in the table below:
| States Affected | No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) | No. of Cases (on admission) | No. Discharged | No. of Deaths |
| Lagos | 9,482 | 7,881 | 1,475 | 126 |
| FCT | 1,656 | 1,110 | 514 | 32 |
| Kano | 1,191 | 347 | 793 | 51 |
| Oyo | 1,188 | 842 | 337 | 9 |
| Rivers | 936 | 427 | 473 | 36 |
| Edo | 851 | 562 | 257 | 32 |
| Ogun | 733 | 263 | 453 | 17 |
| Delta | 715 | 534 | 159 | 22 |
| Kaduna | 668 | 346 | 312 | 10 |
| Bauchi | 493 | 103 | 378 | 12 |
| Gombe | 482 | 149 | 317 | 16 |
| Borno | 477 | 58 | 387 | 32 |
| Katsina | 459 | 170 | 267 | 22 |
| Jigawa | 317 | 120 | 191 | 6 |
| Plateau | 294 | 130 | 156 | 8 |
| Abia | 288 | 112 | 173 | 3 |
| Imo | 269 | 243 | 23 | 3 |
| Ebonyi | 264 | 41 | 222 | 1 |
| Kwara | 217 | 83 | 128 | 6 |
| Ondo | 206 | 120 | 67 | 19 |
| Enugu | 202 | 160 | 37 | 5 |
| Nasarawa | 198 | 78 | 112 | 8 |
| Bayelsa | 184 | 131 | 41 | 12 |
| Sokoto | 140 | 8 | 118 | 14 |
| Niger | 84 | 44 | 37 | 3 |
| Osun | 84 | 32 | 47 | 5 |
| Akwa Ibom | 83 | 38 | 43 | 2 |
| Zamfara | 76 | 0 | 71 | 5 |
| Adamawa | 73 | 30 | 37 | 6 |
| Kebbi | 71 | 23 | 42 | 6 |
| Anambra | 70 | 4 | 57 | 9 |
| Yobe | 56 | 3 | 45 | 8 |
| Benue | 47 | 31 | 15 | 1 |
| Ekiti | 38 | 8 | 28 | 2 |
| Taraba | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 |
| Kogi | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Meanwhile, despite confirmed case at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Cross River State government continue to insist that the state is COVID-19 free.
The Chief Medical Director of the UCTH, Ikpeme Ikpemem had on Thursday announced that a patient tested positive for Coronavirus in the medical facility.
However, while reacting to the CMD’s statement, Cross River State Commissioner for Information, Beta Edu, said the state has no record of any index case yet as the antibody rapid diagnostic test kits could produce false positive results.
She said the state government has commenced investigations into the case and will soon make its findings known to the general.
“The attention of the Cross River State Government has been drawn to an internal memo signed by the Chief Medical Director of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital Professor Ikpeme stating that it had one positive test result,” Edu said.
“It is important to state that an index COVID-19 case can only be confirmed with PCR and not the antibody Rapid diagnostic test kits which the NCDC had said has very low sensitivity and therefore should not be used for COVID-19 diagnosis as it may produce several false positive cases.
“As a state government, we have commenced investigation into this case and we will get back to the public with our findings. All efforts to identify and isolate suspected cases will be encouraged but we denounce any attempt to label CRS COVID-19 positive using a rapid antibody testing methodology. For now, Cross River State has no recorded case of COVID-19!
“We use this opportunity to further call on the federal ministry of health and NCDC to as a matter of urgency, support Cross River state in the fight against COVID-19,” she said.
