BY BUKOLA BARDI
Nigeria has crossed the forty thousand mark in cases of coronavirus.
The latest infections of five hundred and fifty five recorded in eighteen states yesterday now bring the total number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria to forty thousand, five hundred and thirty two.
Recoveries have climbed to Seventeen thousand, three hundred and seventy four while the virus has killed eight hundred and fifty eight people since its outbreak in February this year.
The Nigeria centre for disease control, NCDC in its daily update on COVID-19 gave the breakdown of states with new infections as follows…
Lagos-156
Kano-65
Ogun-57
Plateau-54
Oyo-53
Benue-43
FCT-30
Ondo-18
Kaduna-16
Akwa Ibom-13
Gombe-13
Rivers-12
Ekiti-9
Osun-8
Cross River-3
Borno-2
Edo-2
Bayelsa-1
Ondo state now has a total of one thousand and sixty one COVID-19 cases.