Nigeria has recorded 220 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 2,388.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known via its Twitter handle on Saturday.
It also announced that fatalities from coronavirus-related complications have increased to 85.
A breakdown of data from the NCDC showed that 17 patients died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in Nigeria.
The data also showed that no new state reported a case in the last 24 hours.
The tweet said: “220 new cases of #COVID19:
Lagos – 62, FCT – 52, Kaduna – 31, Sokoto – 13, Kebbi – 10, Yobe – nine, Borno – six, Edo – five, Bauchi – five, Gombe – four, Enugu – four, Oyo – four, Zamfara – three, Nasarawa – two, Osun – two, Ebonyi – two, Kwara – two, Kano – two, and Plateau – two.
“2,388 confirmed cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria. Discharged: 385; Deaths: 85.”
For now, most Nigerians are of the belief that the mortally rate is higher than the 85 currently being advertised.
A respondent who spoke with PMParrot informed “NCDC and its officials are slow to respond. Many patients were not promptly attended to and have died and been buried. This, has been happening in the northern states of Nigeria.”
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