Nigeria Records 17 New COVID-19 Cases

COVID-19 daily counts trend down below 20 with 17 new cases recorded, down sharply from 203 cases reported the previous day

Nigeria reported no COVID-19 related fatality on Tuesday taking the deaths toll to 2,099.

While the number of cases dropped sharply with 17 persons testing positive to the infection, pushing the caseload to 166,534, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC said in an update via its official Twitter handle.

In the past 24 hours, as many as 1,154 COVID-19 patients in the country have recovered from the disease, and have been discharged, taking the total number of recoveries to 159,935.

Active cases in Nigeria now stand at 4,501 — down from the previous day when it was at  5,638

According to the breakdown of the new cases which was recorded in 5 states, Lagos, the financial capital of the county reported 8 more new cases, River with 5, Kano with 2, Kaduna and Plateau recorded 1 case each.

Today’s report includes a backlog of recoveries from Ondo State from 31st January, 2021 to date.
Zero cases reported from FCT, Nasarawa, Sokoto, Abia, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, and Ekiti States, NCDC added.

Today’s report includes:

*A backlog of recoveries from Ondo State from 31st January, 2021 to date.

*Zero cases reported from:
FCT, Nasarawa, Sokoto, Abia, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, and Ekiti States.

A breakdown of cases by state can be found via https://t.co/zQrpNeOfet pic.twitter.com/uDKcHdGB2Y

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) June 1, 2021

June 01, 2021