203 new cases in Lagos as Nigeria records 604 more coronavirus cases
16,061 patients have so far recovered from coronavirus in Nigeria.
Nigeria has now recorded over 38,000 cases of coronavirus.
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday, July 23, announced the new cases in it's daily updates on coronavirus outbreak in Nigeria.
According to the NCDC, the new cases were recorded in 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
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As usual, Lagos records the highest number of the new cases with 203 new infections followed by Oyo and Abuja with 87 and 79 cases respectively.
This brings the total of confirmed cases in Lagos, the epicentre of the disease outbreak in Nigeria to 14,009.
In Edo state, 41 more cases were detected, 35 in Osun, 24 in Ogun, 22 each in Rivers and Kaduna, 20 in Akwa Ibom, 18 in Plateau, and nine each in Delta and Ebonyi
Other states with new cases of the virus are Imo-8 Enugu-5 Kano-5 Cross River-5 Katsina-4 Nasarawa-3 Borno-2 Ekiti-2 Bauchi-1.
The NCDC's updates also showed that 16,061 patients have so far been discharged from treatment centres, while 833 deaths have been recorded as a result of coronavirus outbreak in the country.
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