Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 221 new cases of the novel coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 53,021.
The latest development was disclosed in a tweet by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle.
221 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Plateau-60
FCT-33
Kaduna-26
Rivers-18
Lagos-17
Enugu-9
Kwara-9
Ondo-9
Nasarawa-6
Gombe-5
Anambra-5
Delta-4
Abia-4
Imo-3
Edo-2
Ogun-2
Oyo-2
Osun-2
Bauchi-1
Kano-153,021 confirmed
40,281 discharged
1,010 deaths pic.twitter.com/IkkSXjy6GL— NCDC (@NCDCgov) August 26, 2020
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 822,000 people worldwide with over 24 million cases recorded and 15.6 million recoveries.
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