BY BUKOLA BARDI
Four hundred and thirty one Nigerians have again recovered from the novel coronavirus in the last twenty four hours.
This brings to eight thousand, two hundred and fifty three, the total number of recoveries since the outbreak of the disease in February this year.
Similarly, six hundred and eighty four new cases of COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC in its daily update on covid19 indicated that the number of infections in the country has risen to twenty three thousand, two hundred and ninety eight.
In the breakdown of the latest infections, Lagos is topping the list with two hundred and fifty nine, Oyo, seventy six, Katsina, sixty nine, twenty two in Osun while Ondo recorded ten new cases.
Other states are, Delta-66, Rivers-46, Ogun-23, Edo-22, Ebonyi-21, FCT-20, Kaduna-16, Imo-9, Abia-9, Gombe-5, Plateau-4, Bauchi-4, Ekiti-2 and Anambra-1
With the latest update, Ondo state now has two hundred and sixteen cases of coronavirus, nineteen death and seventy recoveries.