Nigeria on Friday recorded 1,483 new cases of COVID-19. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, disclosed this on its Twitter page on Friday.
1483 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Kaduna-545
FCT-235
Plateau-127
Nasarawa-80
Oyo-72
Delta-65
Rivers-64
Kano-46
Ogun-46
Bayelsa-30
Gombe-30
Abia-28
Osun-27
Edo-25
Ondo-14
Sokoto-12
Zamfara-10
Bauchi-8
Imo-5
Jigawa-4
Ekiti-4
Borno-4
Niger-2 pic.twitter.com/ln5XAZeTJw— NCDC (@NCDCgov) January 22, 2021
It confirmed that Nigeria now has 118,138 cases of the infection and the country had recorded additional five coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours.
This brings the death toll in the country to 1,490.
It noted that the country has so far tested 1,225,179 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020 in the country.
NCDC said that the new infections were from 22 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
