Nigeria Records 252 New COVID-19 Cases, Total Confirmed Cases Now 52,800

Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 252 new cases of the novel coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 52,800.

The latest development was disclosed in a tweet by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle.

252 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Plateau-50
Enugu-35
Rivers-27
Lagos-26
FCT-18
Kaduna-18
Ekiti-10
Kano-10
Taraba-9
Anambra-8
Edo-8
Oyo-8
Delta-7
Ogun-6
Abia-5
Bayelsa-5
Ebonyi-1
Osun-1

52,800 confirmed
39,964 discharged
1,007 deaths pic.twitter.com/Yb8gLJXMDw

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) August 25, 2020

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 813,733 people worldwide with 23,689,860 cases recorded and 15,098,600 recoveries.