Lagos, Abuja leads as NCDC confirms 313 new cases of COVID-19

Nigeria on Sunday night confirmed 313 new cases of coronavirus.

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed this in a post on its official Twitter page.

Lagos recorded the highest number with 146 new cases, while FCT followed with 36.

This brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 7839, with 226 deaths recorded.

The tweet read: “313 new cases of #COVID19; 148-Lagos

36-FCT; 27-Rivers; 19-Edo; 13-Kano; 12-Ogun; 11-Ebonyi; 8-Nasarawa; 8-Delta; 7-Oyo; 6- Plateau;

5-Kaduna; 4-Kwara; 3-Akwa Ibom; 3-Bayelsa; 2-Niger; 1-Anambra

“7839 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria, Discharged: 2263 and Deaths: 226.”