Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC is reporting that 3,442 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the infection in Nigeria within the last 24 hours. This figure takes the number of successfully treated cases in the country to 47,872.
The Centre explains that 3,070 of the recoveries recorded are patients treated under its community case management guidelines. While the Federal Capital Territory Abuja accounts for 2,967 of the recoveries, Kwara State has 103 of the cases.
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There are 17 states reporting 126 new Covid-19 infections in Nigeria. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 56,604.
The states with new Covid-19 cases include FCT-37; Lagos-27; Plateau-16; Kaduna-9; Abia-7; Gombe and Ondo-6 each. Others are Imo-5; Delta, Ekiti, Kwara and Oyo-2 each; Bauchi, Kano, Katsina, Ogun and Yobe-1 each.
Meanwhile, 3 more persons have die of Covid-19 related complications in Nigeria with the national death toll now 1,091
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
