COVID-19 Continue To Spread In Nigeria, Reports More Than 2000 Cases Within 72-hour

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported ten deaths and 2,088 new cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the last 72 hours, worldtopnewsng.com can confirm.

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In an official tweet by the NCDC, Nigeria now has 72,575 confirmed cases of the deadly virus as at Saturday.

Lagos State lead the way with 225 followed by Nigeria’s capital, FCT with 181 cases from the 617 new cases added on Saturday.

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As at 22:20 on Saturday, Nigeria had recorded 65,850 recoveries and a total of 1,194 dead cases so far.

617 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-225
FCT-181
Kaduna-125
Adamawa-25
Nasarawa-20
Kano-12
Rivers-8
Edo-4
Ekiti-4
Bayelsa-3
Ogun-3
Plateau-3
Akwa Ibom-2
Delta-1
Sokoto-1

72,757 confirmed
65,850 discharged
1,194 deaths pic.twitter.com/I2OpOaX7Gd

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) December 12, 2020