The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced 490 new cases of COVID-19.
This brings the total confirmed cases to 17,148 in the Africa’s most populous nation.
The new figure shows that Lagos leads with 142 cases, FCT-60, Bayelsa-54, Rivers-39, Delta-37, Oyo-30, and Kaduna-26.
Others are Imo-23, Enugu-19, Kwara-17, Gombe-11, Ondo-10, Bauchi-8, Ogun-7, Borno-6 and Benue-1.
A total of 5,623 patients have been successfully managed and discharged while 455 deaths have been recorded.
