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NCDC Records 541 New Cases Of COVID-19

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The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday recorded 541 new cases of the deadly coronavirus (covid-19) in Nigeria.

Naija News reports that this was made known in a post on its website on Monday.

The latest reports by the NCDC shows that Lagos, the hardest-hit state by the pandemic, recorded 242 new cases, while Akwa Ibom reported 94 cases, Enugu and Oyo logged 48 infections respectively.

Other states include Anambra (34), Rivers (19), Ogun (17), Ekiti (15), FCT (9), Kwara (7), Abia (5), Delta (2) and Niger (1).

Fortunately, nobody died from th me deadly virus on Sunday.

However the nation’s death toll still stands at 2,219.

The NCDC said 306 people were discharged on Sunday after recovering from the infection.

With the new figure, a total of 167,132 patients have so far recovered from COVID-19 in Nigeria, while a  Total of 182,503 coronavirus cases have now been confirmed across the country.



George Oshogwe Ogbolu is a Digital Media Strategist | Content Writer | Journalist | New Media Influencer | Proofreader and Editor at Naija News.