By GRACE AUDU, Abuja –
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), said on Tuesday it recorded 1,303 new COVID-19 infections in the country.
In a Twitter update via its verified handle, the government agency also put the total number confirmed cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus in Nigeria at 124,299.
A total of 99,276 people it stated, have so far been discharged from hospital, while the number of deaths so far is 1,522.
It gave a breakdown of the 1,303 new infections as follows:
Lagos-478 FCT-211 Nasarawa-83 Rivers-72 Kwara-42 Edo-36 Ondo-34 Benue-32 Kaduna-32 Katsina-26 Plateau-26 Kano-25 Taraba-25 Osun-22 Delta-21 Oyo-21 Niger-19 Sokoto-18 Ebonyi-17 Ekiti-14 Gombe-13 Ogun-12 Bauchi-11 Zamfara-8 Borno-4 Jigawa-1