Nigeria Records 332 New COVID-19 Cases

Nigeria, on Thursday, recorded 332 cases of COVID-19, its highest daily figure in over five months, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control data shows.

The health officials again, reported no additional deaths leaving the country’s toll from the virus at 3,144.

At least 250,229 persons have recovered from the disease as confirmed cases, since the country started reporting in February 2020, stood at 257,290.

In an update via its official Facebook page, the NCDC said the new cases were recorded across five states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It said Lagos State reported most of the new infections with 251 cases.

The breakdown of the NCDC data also revealed that Rivers, FCT, Kano, Delta, Oyo reported 50, 21, 7, 2 and 1 cases respectively.

While eight States reported zero cases: Bayelsa, Ekiti, Kaduna, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Plateau and Sokoto

NCDC noted that this report includes data for 25th - 29th June 2022.

This report includes:

▪️Data for 25th - 29th June 2022
▪️8 States with zero cases reported: Bayelsa, Ekiti, Kaduna, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Plateau and Sokoto

For a breakdown of cases by state visit https://t.co/zQrpNf5Q61 pic.twitter.com/mi3lWEbn9M

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) June 30, 2022

July 01, 2022