A total of four hundred and ninety-nine, 499, new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Nigeria.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced the figure on Thursday.
NCDC said Lagos State recorded 157 cases, while Edo State followed with 59 cases.
Nigeria now has a total of 30,748 confirmed cases and 689 deaths.
The tweet reads “499 new cases of COVID19;
Lagos-157
Edo-59
Ondo-56
Oyo-31
Akwa Ibom-22
Borno-21
Plateau-19
Kaduna-18
Katsina-18
Bayelsa-17
FCT-17
Delta-14
Kano-11
Rivers-10
Enugu-8
Ogun-6
Kwara-4
Imo-3
Nasarawa-2
Osun-2
Abia-1
Ekiti-1
Niger-1
Yobe-1
“30748 confirmed cases, 12,546 patients have been discharged, with 689 deaths recorded.”
