Nigeria Records 595 New Cases Of C0VID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 595 new cases of the COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 34,854.

The health centre disclosed this via its Twitter handle on late Thursday, July 16, 2020.

Nigeria’s COVID-19 epicentre, Lagos State, had the highest number of cases for the day with 156 persons infected with the virus while Ondo State comes second having reported 95 fresh infections.

Other COVID-19 cases for the day were found as follows:  Rivers – 53,  Abia – 43,  Oyo – 38, Enugu – 29,  Edo – 24, FCT – 23,  Kaduna – 20,  Akwa Ibom – 17,  Anambra – 17, Osun – 17 Ogun  -14,  Kano – 13, Imo – 11, Delta – 6, Ekiti – 5, Gombe – 4, Plateau – 4, Cross River – 2, Adamawa – 1,  Bauchi – 1,  Jigawa – 1 and Yobe – 1.