The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 162 more COVID-19 cases in Nigeria, bringing to 54,905, the total infections in the county as at Saturday, September 5.
The NCDC in an update on its website, also stated that three deaths occurred on the same day pushing the number of such deaths to 1,054.
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The disease control body equally revealed that 42,922 cases have so far been discharged across the country.
According to the NCDC, the 162 new cases were reported from 14 states and Abuja as follows – Lagos (53), Gombe (21), Oyo (19), Delta (12), Ondo (11), Plateau (10), Ebonyi (9), FCT (6), Kwara (6), Kaduna (5), Rivers (3), Ogun (2), Anambra (2), Imo (2), Ekiti (1).
Meanwhile, the latest numbers bring Lagos state total confirmed cases to 18,308, followed by Abuja (5,279), Oyo (3,187), Plateau (2,720), Edo (2,594), Kaduna (2,189), Rivers (2,175), Delta (1,768), Kano (1,727), Ogun (1,678), Ondo (1,561), Enugu (1,184), Ebonyi (1,014), Kwara (982), Katsina (812), Abia (807), Osun (795), Gombe (744), Borno (741), and Bauchi (669).
Imo State has recorded 534 cases, Benue (460), Nasarawa (437), Bayelsa (391), Jigawa (322), Ekiti (282), Akwa Ibom (280), Niger (244), Adamawa (228), Anambra (221), Sokoto (159), Kebbi (93), Taraba (87), Cross River (83), Zamfara (78), Yobe (67), while Kogi state has 5 cases only.
