Nigeria Records 675 New Cases of COVID-19

Six hundred and seventy-five confirmed new cases of Coronavirus pandemic has been reported in Nigeria.

The development was confirmed on the verified official Twitter handle of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Monday, June 22 at about 11:14 pm.

This brings the overall cases of COVID-19 disease in Nigeria to 20919, while 7109 people have been discharged. Naija News understands that 525 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.

675 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-288
Oyo-76
Rivers-56
Delta-31
Ebonyi-30
Gombe-28
Ondo-20
Kaduna-20
Kwara-20
Ogun-17
FCT-16
Edo-13
Abia-10
Nasarawa-9
Imo-9
Bayelsa-8
Borno-8
Katsina-8
Sokoto-3
Bauchi-3
Plateau-2

20,919 confirmed
7,109 discharged
525 deaths pic.twitter.com/7nAWZGBiYY

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) June 22, 2020

Meanwhile, NCDC’s Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, while addressing the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Monday (today) said that there is no state in the country that is COVID-19 free.