Nigeria Records 436 New Cases Of Coronavirus

Four hundred and thirty-six confirmed new cases of Coronavirus pandemic has been reported in Nigeria.

The development was confirmed on the official Twitter handle of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Sunday, June 21 at about 11:33 pm.

This brings the overall cases of COVID-19 disease in Nigeria to 20244, while 6879 people have been discharged. Naija News understands that 518 persons so far has died of the novel virus since its outbreak in Nigeria a few months ago.

See below the newly reported cases from each state.

436 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-169
Oyo-52
Plateau-31
Imo-29
Kaduna-28
Ogun-23
FCT-18
Enugu-18
Bauchi-17
Bayelsa-14
Rivers-8
Osun-6
Kano-6
Edo-5
Benue-5
Adamawa-3
Borno-2
Abia-1
Ekiti-1

20,244 confirmed
6,879 discharged
518 deaths pic.twitter.com/Y1GqUgSMwI

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) June 21, 2020

Meanwhile, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has announced the suspension of its indefinite strike action beginning from Monday, June 22.

The Doctors decided to suspend their industrial action after reaching an understanding with the Federal Government.