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NCDC Confirms 599 New COVID-19 Cases

  Five hundred and ninety-nine new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the country on Tuesday, data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) … Continue reading NCDC Confirms 599 New COVID-19 Cases


A file photo of an NCDC official and two others on duty
A file photo of an NCDC official and two others on duty.

 

Five hundred and ninety-nine new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the country on Tuesday, data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have shown.

While giving an update on the management of the pandemic in a Facebook post on Wednesday, the agency revealed that one more infected patient gave up the fight against the disease.

It stated that the new cases were reported from 14 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

In what seems to be an unusual trend, Delta State recorded the highest tally for the day with 194 fresh infections and was followed by Edo and the FCT which had 94 and 80 additional cases respectively.

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However, the 194 cases reported in Delta State comprise 191 infections recorded between December 13 and 26, as well as three cases logged on December 27.

Others include Kaduna – 48, Lagos – 35, Ondo – 23, Kano – 21, Rivers – 20, Kwara – 20, Ogun – 18, Plateau – 12, Abia – eight, Cross River – eight, Ekiti – six, and Bauchi – three.

No new case was reported in Osun and Sokoto States.

As a result of the new infections reported, Nigeria has now confirmed a total of 239,019 since it reported its first case in February 2020.

Out of these confirmed cases, 213,180 people who initially tested positive have been discharged and 3,027 deaths have been recorded in all 36 states and the FCT.

While the country has 22,803 COVID-19 cases still active, the NCDC said it has collected and tested a total of 3,823,309 samples.

See the breakdown of cases according to states below:

States Affected No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) No. of Cases (on admission) No. Discharged No. of Deaths
Lagos 92,718 11,895 80,063 760
FCT 27,047 3,201 23,612 234
Rivers 14,325 814 13,357 154
Kaduna 10,485 252 10,148 85
Plateau 10,190 156 9,961 73
Oyo 9,776 800 8,783 193
Edo 7,431 610 6,540 281
Ogun 5,694 208 5,405 81
Delta 4,904 2,238 2,556 110
Ondo 4,874 262 4,514 98
Kano 4,686 210 4,353 123
Akwa Ibom 4,487 94 4,349 44
Kwara 4,228 455 3,709 64
Osun 3,107 67 2,951 89
Enugu 2,901 23 2,849 29
Gombe 2,784 41 2,683 60
Nasarawa 2,517 133 2,345 39
Anambra 2,489 58 2,412 19
Katsina 2,377 13 2,327 37
Imo 2,310 254 1,999 57
Abia 2,129 86 2,010 33
Ebonyi 2,062 26 2,004 32
Benue 1,907 370 1,512 25
Ekiti 1,904 129 1,747 28
Bauchi 1,857 43 1,791 23
Borno 1,532 188 1,306 38
Bayelsa 1,293 39 1,226 28
Taraba 1,269 15 1,222 32
Adamawa 1,157 27 1,098 32
Niger 1,077 59 998 20
Sokoto 810 0 782 28
Cross River 704 14 665 25
Jigawa 627 8 602 17
Yobe 502 3 490 9
Kebbi 470 0 454 16
Zamfara 375 12 354 9
Kogi 5 0 3 2