Nigeria has recorded 661 more positive cases of coronavirus (COVID-19).
The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in a tweet on Saturday night.
661 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-230
Rivers-127
Delta-83
FCT-60
Oyo-51
Edo-31
Bayelsa-27
Kaduna-25
Plateau-13
Ondo-6
Nasarawa-3
Ekiti-2
Kano-2
Borno-119,808 confirmed
6,718 discharged
506 deaths pic.twitter.com/PH87IGyn5R— NCDC (@NCDCgov) June 20, 2020
Of the new cases, Lagos has the highest with 230 infections, followed by Rivers and Delta States which reported 127 and 83 more cases respectively.
Lagos remains the epicentre of the disease in Nigeria with a total of 8,407 cases, followed by Abuja and Kano which have 1,549 and 1,184 infections respectively.
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