Nigeria Records 1,143 New COVID-19 Cases, 13 Deaths

Nigeria Records 1,143 New COVID-19 Cases, 13 Deaths

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo

Nigeria Saturday recorded 1,143 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 13 deaths.

According to the daily statistics of COVID-19, new confirmed cases posted by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) midnight Saturday were 1,143, while 13 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.

It said that till date, 145,664 cases have been confirmed, while 120,399 cases have been discharged and 1,747 deaths recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The 1,143 new cases were reported from 20 states — Lagos (319), FCT (157), Kwara (90), Oyo (74), Enugu (72), Nasarawa (69), Imo (58), Osun (51), Gombe (49), Kaduna (31), Edo (23), Katsina (23), Kebbi (23), Ogun (22), Kano (19), Rivers (19), Ebonyi (18), Plateau (14), Delta (7), and Ekiti (5).

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