Nigeria records 180 new cases of COVID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced an additional 180 new cases of the covid19 infections in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 63,508.

The director-general of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, gave the figures while updating newsmen on covid-19 infections in the country in Abuja on Thursday.

The NCDC DG also disclosed that 73 COVID-19 patients had been successfully treated and discharged at isolation centres across the country.

He revealed that Lagos recorded the highest number of 87 new infections, while Oyo, the FCT, Plateau and Edo had 51, 12, 10 and four new confirmed cases respectively.

Ekiti and Ogun had three new cases each; Bauchi, Kaduna and Niger had two cases each and Kano, Ondo, Osun and rivers had one each.