The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 745 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 18,480.
The NCDC made this known via its verified Twitter handle on Thursday.
Lagos State, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria topped the number of confirmed cases with 280 new cases taking the total number of confirmed cases in Lagos alone to 7896.
Oyo-103, Ebonyi-72, FCT-60, Imo-46, Edo-34, Delta-33, Rivers-25, Kaduna-23, Ondo-16, Katsina-12, Kano-10, Bauchi-8, Borno-7, Kwara-5, Gombe-4, Sokoto-2, Enugu-2, Yobe-1, Osun-1, Nasarawa-1.
Till date, a total of 18,480 cases have been confirmed positive, 6,307 have been discharged.
It also said that no fewer than 475 patients have died of coronavirus-related complications in the country.
Data obtained from the NCDC showed that Nigeria currently has 11,669 active COVID-19 cases.
It said, “On the 18th of June 2020, 745 new confirmed cases and 6 deaths were recorded in Nigeria’
“No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.
“Till date, 18480 cases have been confirmed, 6307 cases have been discharged and 475 deaths have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory”.
Meanwhile, Kaduna State government says it has secured a mobile laboratory for COVID-19 test and other infectious diseases in the state.
Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai, who made this known on Thursday in Kaduna, said the laboratory, earlier donated by USAID for tuberculosis test, was deployed to the communities for COVID-19 test and the effort had yielded result.
He said the mobile laboratory tagged: Wellness On Wheels (WOW), which had been in the state for a while, was to increase the rate of testing in the communities.
“There is a 16 per cent rate of infection in the communities that have been tested. The high-risk areas are the boarder communities with neighbouring states that have large cases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The testing has helped a lot because, for the first time, the government is getting the demographic spread of COVID-19 in the state,” he said.
The total number of confirmed cases in different states across the country is stated below:
| States Affected | No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) | No. of Cases (on admission) | No. Discharged | No. of Deaths |
| Lagos | 7,896 | 6,406 | 1,382 | 108 |
| FCT | 1,451 | 1,021 | 402 | 28 |
| Kano | 1,170 | 414 | 706 | 50 |
| Oyo | 764 | 474 | 281 | 9 |
| Edo | 729 | 538 | 160 | 31 |
| Rivers | 721 | 407 | 288 | 26 |
| Ogun | 586 | 215 | 356 | 15 |
| Kaduna | 490 | 194 | 286 | 10 |
| Borno | 457 | 94 | 333 | 30 |
| Gombe | 447 | 243 | 191 | 13 |
| Bauchi | 438 | 105 | 322 | 11 |
| Katsina | 426 | 171 | 233 | 22 |
| Delta | 400 | 279 | 104 | 17 |
| Jigawa | 317 | 121 | 190 | 6 |
| Ebonyi | 234 | 97 | 137 | 0 |
| Imo | 205 | 181 | 21 | 3 |
| Plateau | 186 | 67 | 114 | 5 |
| Nasarawa | 178 | 98 | 74 | 6 |
| Kwara | 177 | 71 | 100 | 6 |
| Abia | 173 | 153 | 20 | 0 |
| Sokoto | 135 | 6 | 115 | 14 |
| Bayelsa | 111 | 80 | 28 | 3 |
| Ondo | 105 | 49 | 41 | 15 |
| Enugu | 95 | 62 | 28 | 5 |
| Zamfara | 76 | 0 | 71 | 5 |
| Kebbi | 67 | 27 | 34 | 6 |
| Anambra | 66 | 13 | 44 | 9 |
| Niger | 66 | 31 | 33 | 2 |
| Yobe | 56 | 3 | 45 | 8 |
| Osun | 51 | 2 | 45 | 4 |
| Akwa Ibom | 48 | 6 | 40 | 2 |
| Adamawa | 42 | 1 | 37 | 4 |
| Benue | 36 | 25 | 11 | 0 |
| Ekiti | 30 | 4 | 24 | 2 |
| Taraba | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 |
| Kogi | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
