Nigeria, on Tuesday, recorded 503 new cases of COVID-19 in 20 states, bringing the total confirmed cases to 29,789.
Of the new cases reported by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Lagos which is the epicenter, leads with a total of 153 cases, followed by Ondo State with 76 confirmed cases.
It would be recalled that confirmed cases of the virus have been increasing lately in Ondo, Edo, Enugu, FCT, Delta and Rivers.
The 503 new cases were reported in 20 states: Lagos – 153, Ondo – 76, Edo – 54, FCT – 41, Enugu – 37, Rivers – 30, Benue – 24, Osun – 20, Kaduna – 15, Kwara – 13, Abia – 9, Borno – 8, Plateau – 6, Taraba – 5, Ogun – 3, Kano – 3, Kebbi – 2, Nasarawa – 2, Bayelsa – 1 and Gombe – 1.
All the reporting states already had at least a case of the virus.
All 36 states and the FCT have recorded at least a case of the disease.
NCDC said a total of 280 COVID-19 patients have now been discharged in the last 24 hours, bringing Nigeria’s total number of recoveries to 12,108.
Fifteen patients were also confirmed to have died of COVID-19 complications across the country on Tuesday.
With 79 deaths in the past week, a total of 669 people has now died of COVID-19 complications across the country.
A breakdown of the 29, 789 confirmed cases is presented in the following table:
States Affected | No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) | No. of Cases (on admission) | No. Discharged | No. of Deaths |
Lagos | 11,520 | 9,696 | 1,691 | 133 |
FCT | 2,322 | 1,596 | 691 | 35 |
Oyo | 1,530 | 700 | 811 | 19 |
Edo | 1,489 | 555 | 880 | 54 |
Delta | 1,285 | 853 | 407 | 25 |
Kano | 1,271 | 190 | 1,029 | 52 |
Rivers | 1,235 | 396 | 796 | 43 |
Ogun | 1,050 | 377 | 652 | 21 |
Kaduna | 883 | 291 | 580 | 12 |
Katsina | 628 | 164 | 441 | 23 |
Borno | 555 | 73 | 448 | 34 |
Ondo | 550 | 406 | 124 | 20 |
Gombe | 521 | 120 | 380 | 21 |
Bauchi | 516 | 19 | 485 | 12 |
Ebonyi | 503 | 71 | 426 | 6 |
Plateau | 460 | 205 | 241 | 14 |
Enugu | 418 | 152 | 255 | 11 |
Abia | 400 | 179 | 218 | 3 |
Imo | 352 | 283 | 61 | 8 |
Jigawa | 318 | 0 | 308 | 10 |
Kwara | 297 | 126 | 162 | 9 |
Bayelsa | 269 | 116 | 137 | 16 |
Nasarawa | 234 | 113 | 113 | 8 |
Osun | 198 | 107 | 84 | 7 |
Sokoto | 153 | 12 | 125 | 16 |
Niger | 122 | 28 | 87 | 7 |
Benue | 121 | 80 | 35 | 6 |
Akwa Ibom | 112 | 38 | 71 | 3 |
Adamawa | 99 | 21 | 71 | 7 |
Kebbi | 86 | 16 | 63 | 7 |
Zamfara | 76 | 0 | 71 | 5 |
Anambra | 73 | 7 | 57 | 9 |
Yobe | 61 | 2 | 51 | 8 |
Ekiti | 45 | 3 | 40 | 2 |
Taraba | 27 | 16 | 11 | 0 |
Kogi | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Cross River | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |