Nigeria has recorded 91 new cases of COVID-19, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced.
NCDC, on its verified twitter handle on Wednesday evening, said 74 of the new cases are in Lagos, five in Katsina, four in Ogun, two in Delta, two in Edo, one in Kwara, one in Oyo, one in FCT, one in Adamawa
With them, Nigeria has 873 cases of COVID-19 with 28 deaths.
Meanwhile, Oyo state has recorded first death from the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the state’s Governor Seyi Makinde in a tweet on Wednesday evening, a patient died at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
Also, the number of confirmed cases in the state is now 17 according to the report by the Nigerian Center for Disease Control.
Makinde also added that “The COVID-19 confirmation test for one suspected case came back positive.
“The patient died at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, before his result came out today. Contact tracing has already commenced.”
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