Nigeria Reports 663 New Cases of Coronavirus, As Total Infections Now Over 13,000
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday confirmed a total number of 663 new COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the country via its Twitter handle.
This brings the total for Nigeria to 13,464 with 4,206 people so far discharged and 365 death.
According to NCDC’s tweet, Nigeria’s economic hub Lagos State has the highest number of 170, followed by its neighbour Ogun State with 108, while many of the 25 states and FCT recorded double digits resulting in the highest single-day record for the county’s coronavirus infections.
According to World Health Organisation, WHO, worldwide the number of those infected have exceeded seven million and over 400,000 deaths have occurred.
