NCDC Reports 438 New Cases Of COVID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has reported four hundred and thirty-eight confirmed new cases of Coronavirus pandemic in the country.

The health agency on Saturday, 25 July at about 11:56 pm confirmed the new figures on its verified official account on the microblogging site, Twitter.

According to the NCDC, the newly reported cases were found as follows;

Lagos-123
Kaduna-50
Rivers-40
Edo-37
Adamawa-25
Oyo-20
Nasarawa-16
Osun-15
Enugu-15
FCT-14
Ekiti-13
Ondo-13
Ebonyi-11
Katsina-10
Abia-9
Delta-8
Kwara-4
Ogun-3
Cross River-3
Kano-3
Bauchi-3
Yobe-2
Sokoto-1
Niger-1

The above development brings the overall cases of the dreaded disease in Nigeria to 39,977 while a total of 16,948 people have been discharged from the novel virus.

So far, 856 related COVID-19 deaths have been recorded in Nigeria, Naija News understands.

See below the report as made available by the NCDC on Saturday night.

438 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-123
Kaduna-50
Rivers-40
Edo-37
Adamawa-25
Oyo-20
Nasarawa-16
Osun-15
Enugu-15
FCT-14
Ekiti-13
Ondo-13
Ebonyi-11
Katsina-10
Abia-9
Delta-8
Kwara-4
Ogun-3
Cross River-3
Kano-3
Bauchi-3
Yobe-2
Sokoto-1
Niger-1 pic.twitter.com/QVEEvTktXP

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) July 25, 2020

Meanwhile, speakers of the house of representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has blamed the current state of insecurity in the country as the reason for Nigeria being uninhabitable for citizens and unattractive to investors.