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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.
