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COVID-19: Nigeria Records 1861 New Cases As Global Records Hit 98.2 Million

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COVID-19: Nigeria Records 1861 New Cases As Global Records Hit 98.2 Million

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COVID-19: Nigeria Records 1861 New Cases As Global Records Hit 98.2 Million

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 1,861 new cases of COVID-19.

However, it said in a late night tweet “Our discharges today include 697 community recoveries in Lagos State, 128 in Rivers State and 116 in Plateau State managed in line with guidelines.”

Of the new cases confirmed Wednesday, Lagos-773; FCT-285; Oyo-138; Rivers-111; Plateau-92; Nasarawa-83; Kaduna-59; Enugu-57; Imo-57; Edo-43; Kano-27; Kwara-20; Ebonyi-19; Abia-17; Ogun-12; Osun-12; Katsina-8; Bayelsa-6; Bauchi-5; Delta-5; Borno-4; Jigawa-4 and Zamfara-1.

Globally, 4.1 million new cases were reported in the past week, a decline of 15% from last week, and the number of new deaths reported was just under 96 000, comparable to the previous week, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics.

This brings the cumulative numbers to over 98.2 million reported cases and over 2.1 million deaths globally since the start of the pandemic

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