Nigeria Records 296 New COVID-19 Cases, Total Confirmed Cases Now 53,317

Nigeria has recorded 296 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 53,317.

The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle on Thursday night:

296 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Plateau-85
Enugu-46
Oyo-31
Lagos-21
Rivers-20
FCT-15
Kaduna-13
Bauchi-12
Delta-11
Ekiti-11
Akwa Ibom-7
Ebonyi-6
Kwara-5
Ogun-4
Osun-4
Gombe-3
Niger-2

53,317 confirmed
40,726 discharged
1,011 deaths pic.twitter.com/7VLNB37mw1

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) August 27, 2020

Lagos remains the epicentre of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria with 18,056 total number of confirmed cases. It is followed by the FCT and Oyo with 5,094 and 3,091 recorded cases respectively.

See the table below showing the total number of confirmed cases in the country on a state by state basis: