With Lagos alone adding 179 cases, the rate of Covid-19 infection in Nigeria returned to a steep trajectory on Friday, as 288 new patients were confirmed. New confirmations for the whole country on Thursday were 193 cases.
The new confirmations raised the country’s total cases to 5445, according to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
Other states and their figures were as follows: 20-Kaduna, 15-Katsina, 15-Jigawa, 13-Borno, 11-Ogun, 8-Kano, 7-FCT, 4-Niger, 4-Ekiti, 3-Oyo, 3-Delta, 3-Bauchi, 2-Kwara, 1-Edo
NCDC said that 1320 patients have been treated and discharged while 171 died.
