Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed 667 new cases of the novel coronavirus pandemic worldtopnewsng.com can confirm.
In an official tweet by the NCDC, Nigeria now has 19, 147 confirmed cases of the deadly virus as at Friday.
Lagos state lead the way with a whopping 281 cases from the 667 new cases added on Friday.
As at 23:05 on Friday, Nigeria had recorded 6, 581 recoveries and a total of 485 dead cases so far.
667 new cases of #COVID19;
Lagos-281
Abia-48
Oyo-45
FCT-38
Ogun-37
Enugu-31
Ondo-23
Plateau-21
Edo-19
Delta-18
Rivers-18
Bayelsa-17
Akwa Ibom-17
Kaduna-14
Kano-12
Bauchi-9
Gombe-4
Osun-3
Benue-3
Nasarawa-3
Kwara-3
Ekiti-2
Borno-119,147 confirmed
6,581 discharged
487 deaths pic.twitter.com/SyMuAGhq8V— NCDC (@NCDCgov) June 19, 2020