Nigeria Records 745 New Cases Of COVID-19, Total Now 18,480

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Thursday night announced   that Nigeria recorded 745  new cases to make a total of 18,480 recorded cases , 6,307 persons discharged, and 475 deaths.

The NCDC made this known via its Twitter handle and gave the breakdown of the recorded cases per state as follows:

Lagos-280 Oyo-103 Ebonyi-72 FCT-60 Imo-46 Edo-34 Delta-33 Rivers-25 Kaduna-23 Ondo-16 Katsina-12 Kano-10 Bauchi-8 Borno-7 Kwara-5 Gombe-4 Sokoto-2 Enugu-2 Yobe-1 Osun-1 Nasarawa-1

Thursday’s record of 745 new cases is currently the highest number of COVID-19  infections recorded in a single-day.