Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases rise to almost 52,000

Nigeria now has 51,905 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 601 new cases recorded on Saturday night

According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, 38,767  patients have now been discharged, with 997 patients losing their lives to the coronavirus.

The tweet revealed that Lagos State had the highest number of infections on Saturday night with 404 cases, with FCT State following with 37 cases.

Other states read as follows:

Oyo-19

Ondo-14

Abia-13

Enugu-13

Kaduna-13

Edo-12

Kano-12

Kwara-11

Ebonyi-10

Nasarawa-7

Ogun-6

Osun-5

Delta-5

Niger-5

Plateau-4

Bayelsa-4

Katsina-3

Ekiti-2

Imo-2

601 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-404
FCT-37
Oyo-19
Ondo-14
Abia-13
Enugu-13
Kaduna-13
Edo-12
Kano-12
Kwara-11
Ebonyi-10
Nasarawa-7
Ogun-6
Osun-5
Delta-5
Niger-5
Plateau-4
Bayelsa-4
Katsina-3
Ekiti-2
Imo-2

51,905 confirmed
38,767 discharged
997 deaths pic.twitter.com/g7HhLNEbGV

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) August 22, 2020