NIGERIA RECORDS NEARLY 700 NEW CASES OF CORONAVIRUS IN A SINGLE DAY AS LAGOS FIGURES RISE BY 345

Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria have increased to 14,554 after 681 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known on Thursday.

It announced that the new cases were recorded in 17 states, The PUNCH reports.

Breakdown of the data from the NCDC showed that no fewer than 143 patients were discharged in the past 24 hours.

It said, “On the 11th of June 2020, 681 new confirmed cases and 5 deaths were recorded in Nigeria’

“No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.

“Till date, 14,554 cases have been confirmed, 4,494 cases have been discharged and 387 deaths have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

“The 681 new cases are reported from 17 states- Lagos(345), Rivers(51), Ogun(48), Gombe(47), Oyo(36), Imo(31), Delta(28), Kano(23), Bauchi(18), Edo(12), Katsina(12), Kaduna(9), Anambra( 7), Jigawa(5), Kebbi(4), Ondo(4), Nasarawa(1).”