Nigeria has confirmed 1,139 new cases of the novel coronavirus also known as COVID-19.
Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control NCDC confirmed the cases on Thursday night via its official website.
According to NCDC, “The 1139 new cases are reported from 19 States -Rivers (420), Lagos (324), Oyo (81), Gombe (47), Akwa Ibom (41), Kaduna (36), Niger (36), Ondo (35), FCT (29), Delta (18), Edo (15), Ogun (14), Kano (12), Cross River (9), Ekiti (8), Kebbi (8), Nasarawa (4), Enugu (1), and Jigawa (1)”
The Centre also recorded one COVID-19 related death in the country.
These latest figures bring the total number of confirmed cases to 241,513 with 214,003 discharged and 3030 deaths.
