131 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed, total cases now 56,735

Nigeria now has confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 131 new cases recorded on Thursday night.

According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, 48,092 patients have now been discharged, with 1,093 patients losing their lives to the Coronavirus pandemic.



The tweet revealed that Lagos State had the highest number of infections on Thursday night with 45 cases each, with Kaduna State following with 17 cases.

Other states read as follow:

Plateau-17

FCT-16

Delta-6

Niger-6

Kwara-5

Oyo-3

Akwa Ibom-2

Cross River-2

Ekiti-2

Enugu-2

Osun-2

Sokoto-2

Bauchi-1

Ebonyi-1

Katsina-1

Rivers-1

131 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-45
Kaduna-17
Plateau-17
FCT-16
Delta-6
Niger-6
Kwara-5
Oyo-3
Akwa Ibom-2
Cross River-2
Ekiti-2
Enugu-2
Osun-2
Sokoto-2
Bauchi-1
Ebonyi-1
Katsina-1
Rivers-1

56,735 confirmed
48,092 discharged
1,093 deaths pic.twitter.com/A2XC1CNCrn

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) September 17, 2020