The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 179 new COVID-19 infections and 1116 fatalities in the country.
NCDC disclosed this in a Tweet on Wednesday.
It said Nigeria’s total number of confirmed cases is now 60,834.
Lagos recorded the highest number of cases with 116, followed by Anambra with 20.
The tweets reads, “179 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-116, Anambra-20, FCT-9, Oyo-9, Rivers-9, Delta-3, Nasarawa-3, Edo-2, Kaduna-2, Ogun-2, Plateau-2, Ekiti-1, Osun-1
“60,834 confirmed, 52,143 discharged, 1,116 deaths.”