NCDC announces 503 new COVID-19 cases, total now 29,789, fatalities 669

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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

 

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