NCDC Confirms 241 New Cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has confirmed two hundred and forty-one new cases of Coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria.

The agency confirmed the new cases on Tuesday night, at about 11:47 pm on its official microblogging site account.

This brings the overall confirmed cases of the novel virus in Nigeria to 10819.

See below details of the newly reported cases by the NCDC.

241 new cases of #COVID19;

Lagos-142
Oyo-15
FCT-13
Kano-12
Edo-11
Delta-10
Kaduna -9
Rivers-9
Borno-8
Jigawa-4
Gombe-3
Plateau-3
Osun-1
Bauchi-1

10819 cases of #COVID19Nigeria
Discharged: 3239
Deaths: 314#TakeResponsibility pic.twitter.com/VIRaG5lGiN

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) June 2, 2020

Meanwhile, the Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu has noted that 812 health workers of the agency have contracted COVID-19.

Ihekweazu said this while he was speaking at the media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 on Tuesday.