Nigeria: Two More Deaths, 433 New COVID-19 Cases Reported

Nigeria's COVID-19 tally had moved up to 203,514 on September 23, after the health officials confirmed additional 433 new cases of COVID-19 in the country.

According to the data released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC, the new cases were identified in 16 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

The top five states which have registered maximum COVID-19 cases on Thursday are FCT, Lagos, Anambra, Rivers and Plateau with 191, 79, 63, 27 and 13 cases respectively.

Other states with their cases as follows, Oyo-10, Delta-9, Ondo-8, Edo-7, Gombe-6, Akwa Ibom-5, Borno-5, Ekiti-4, Bayelsa-2, Zamfara-2, Enugu-1 and Kano-1

Today's report includes 0 cases report from Nasarawa, Ogun, Osun and Sokoto States, according to NCDC data.

An increase of 90 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. Taking the total tally of active cases to 8,896.

Two more people succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, mounting to 2,668 till date, NCDC COVID-19 dashboard shows.

The data further shows that 341 more patients have recovered from the virus, this now brings total recoveries in the country to 191,942 since the beginning of the outbreak.

September 23, 2021