Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases hit 43,537 with 883 deaths

As at Saturday 1st August 2020, Nigeria has now recorded 43,537 confirmed cases of coronavirus, TopNaija reports.

This followed the confirmation of 386 new cases of COVID-19 in the country by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, as at Saturday night.

Statistics provided by NCDC showed that Abuja has the highest number of confirmed new COVID-19 cases with 130 infected persons while Lagos has 65, followed by Ondo State with 37.

Disclosing this via its Twitter handle, NCDC also revealed that a total number of 20,087 patients have been discharged with 883 deaths recorded.

386 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

FCT-130
Lagos-65
Ondo-37
Osun-29
Plateau-23
Rivers-15
Enugu-14
Nasarawa-12
Bayelsa-11
Ebonyi-11
Ekiti-9
Oyo-8
Edo-8
Abia-6
Ogun-3
Katsina-3
Imo-1
Adamawa-1

43,537 confirmed
20,087 discharged
883 deaths pic.twitter.com/JfacBBoawd

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) August 1, 2020

The tweet reads below:

”386 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

FCT-130
Lagos-65
Ondo-37
Osun-29
Plateau-23
Rivers-15
Enugu-14
Nasarawa-12
Bayelsa-11
Ebonyi-11
Ekiti-9
Oyo-8
Edo-8
Abia-6
Ogun-3
Katsina-3
Imo-1
Adamawa-1

43,537 confirmed.
20,087 discharged.
883 deaths.”