Nigeria Hit Hard By COVID-19 Second Wave, Records 796 New Cases

As the second wave of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is ravaging the world, Nigeria is not left out of the map.

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has recorded two deaths, 976 new cases of COVID-19 within the last 24 hours, worldtopnewsng.com can confirm.

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In an official tweet by the NCDC, Nigeria now has 72,14 confirmed cases of the deadly virus as at Friday.

Lagos State lead the way with a whopping 258 cases from the 796 new cases added on Friday.

As at 22:50 on Friday, Nigeria had recorded 65,722 recoveries and a total of 1,190 dead cases so far.

796 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

FCT-258
Lagos-248
Kaduna-117
Katsina-52
Ogun-27
Kwara-23
Gombe-22
Adamawa-17
Plateau-15
Kano-6
Rivers-2
Ondo-2
Ekiti-2
Nasarawa-2
Sokoto-2
Taraba-1

72,140 confirmed
65,722 discharged
1,190 deaths pic.twitter.com/TXvJqfOut6

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) December 11, 2020