Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 624 new cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, bringing total number of infections to 41,804.

This was disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), via its official twitter handle.

Lagos reported 212 new cases, Oyo (69),Niger (49), Kano (37), Osun (37), FCT (35, Plateau (34), Gombe (33), Edo (28), Enugu (28), Ebonyi (17), Delta (10), Katsina (9), Ogun (8), Rivers (7), Ondo (5), Kaduna (4) and Nasarawa (2).

 

The COVID-19 coronavirus has killed at least 654,477 people globally with over 16,514,500 confirmed cases  9,347,300 recoveries.