Nigeria has confirmed 1547 new cases of the deadly coronavirus also known as COVID-19.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC confirmed the cases on Monday morning via its official Facebook page.
The NCDC explained that the new cases were recorded from 10 States- “FCT-806, Lagos-401, Borno-166, Oyo-78, Ogun-47, Osun-30, Ekiti-7, Katsina-7, Kano-4, Jigawa-1”
“Today’s report includes 806 confirmed cases reported from FCT for 24th (additional 128 cases), 25th (302) & 26th (376) December, 166 confirmed cases for 24th December and backlogs of 159 cases reported from Borno state, 32 discharged cases reported from FCT for 25th (20) & 26th (12) December, 3 deaths reported from FCT for 25th (2) & 26th (1) December, 0 cases reported from Bauchi, Ondo, Plateau, Rivers and Sokoto States” NCDC explained.
These latest figures bring the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 237,561 with 212,550 discharged and 3,022 COVID-19 related deaths.
