Plateau State leads 18 others including the Federal Capital Territory Abuja as Nigeria records 443 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours. The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Nigeria is now 45.687.
The 19 states with new infections are Plateau-103; Lagos-70; FCT-60; Ondo-35; Edo and Rivers-27 each. Kaduna has 20 new Covid-19 cases; Osun-19; Borno-18; Oyo-18; Kwara-11; Adamawa-9; Nasarawa-7; Gombe-6; Bayelsa and Imo-4 each; Bauchi and Ogun-2 each; Kano-1
The figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC show that 207 Covid-19 patients recovered from the infection with total number of successfully treated cases now 32,637.
There are 6 new Covid-19 fatalities reported in Nigeria with national death toll now 936 since index case on February 27.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)