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COVID-19: NCDC confirms eight death, 1,585 new cases, total now 99,063

COVID-19: NCDC confirms eight death, 1,585 new cases, total now 99,063

NCDC, has reported 1585 new COVID-19 bringing the total number of infections in the country to 99,063.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 1585 new COVID-19 bringing the total number of infections in the country to 99,063.

NCDC disclosed this via its verified Twitter account on Saturday night.

The health agency reported that the country sadly recorded eight additional deaths in the last 24 hours, raising the overall total in the nation since the start of the pandemic to 1,350.

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“The new infections were recorded from 25 States and the Federal Capital Territory, in the last 24 hours.”

Of the 1585 new cases ; 573 were reported from Lagos, FCT-182 Plateau-162 Gombe-81 Oyo-75 Rivers-68 Sokoto-58 Ondo-55 Ogun-42 Nasarawa-40 Akwa Ibom-36 Edo-31 Kaduna-27 Anambra-22 Delta-19 Kano-17 Osun-17 Ebonyi-16 Katsina-14 Niger-14 Bayelsa-9 EKiti-8 Borno-7 Jigawa-5 Abia-4 Bauchi-3.

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