Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases exceed 8,000 with new 229 infections

New 229 Coronavirus disease cases has been reported in the country by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

With the new figure, confirmed cases in the country is 8068 out of which 2311 cases have been discharged and 233 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

The 229 new cases are reported from 15 states- Lagos(90), Katsina(27), Imo(26), Kano(23), FCT(14), Plateau(12), Ogun(9), Delta(7), Borno(5), Rivers(5), Oyo(4), Gombe(3), Osun(2), Anambra(1), Bayelsa(1).

In the last 24 hours 7 deaths occurred while 48 patients recovered from the deadly virus. Currently, 45,683 samples have been tested while 5,524 are active cases as at the time of filling this report.