Nigeria reports 627 fresh COVID-19 cases

Fresh 627 cases of Coronavirus disease have been reported in the country by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

Also, according to the latest data released by the NCDC Friday night, 397 patients recovered from the deadly virus while 12 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.

Currently, the total number of confirmed cases in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is 15181 out of which 4891 cases have been discharged while the total number of death toll increased to 399.

The 627 new cases are reported from 23 states- Lagos(229), FCT(65), Abia(54), Borno(42), Oyo(35), Rivers(28), Edo(28), Gombe(27), Ogun(21), Plateau(18), Delta(18), Bauchi(10), Kaduna(10), Benue(9), Ondo(8), Kwara(6), Nasarawa(4), Enugu(4), Sokoto(3), Niger(3), Kebbi(3), Yobe(1) and Kano(1).

So far, 88,432 samples have been tested while 9,891 are active cases nationwide.