NCDC Reports 594 New Cases Of COVID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has reported five hundred and ninety-four new cases of Coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria.

The new figures were confirmed by the health agency on Thursday night in a series of tweets via its verified account on the microblogging site, Twitter. The new development brings the overall confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria to 22614. As at the time this report was given, 7822 persons have been discharged from the novel virus after testing negative, while 549 people reportedly died.

See below the newly reported cases from each state.

594 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-159
Delta-106
Ondo-44
FCT-34
Edo-34
Oyo-33
Kaduna-33
Enugu-28
Katsina-25
Imo-22
Adamawa-15
Ogun-12
Osun-11
Abia-8
Rivers-6
Nasarawa-5
Bauchi-5
Niger-5
Kebbi-4
Ekiti-3
Plateau-1
Taraba-1

22,614 confirmed
7,822 discharged
549 deaths pic.twitter.com/JaiUIdu56J

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) June 25, 2020

Meanwhile, the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde has confirmed that some cabinet members of his administration have tested positive to the dreaded coronavirus disease.