BY- BUKOLA BARDI
Nigeria has recorded twenty thousand and eighty seven recoveries from the novel coronavirus.
The Nigeria Centre for disease control, NCDC in its daily covid19 update however announced three hundred and eighty six new cases in eighteen states of the federation.
In the breakdown, the Federal capital territory is topping the chart with one hundred and thirty cases, followed by Lagos which recorded sixty five, indicating a low single day infection in the city considered to be the epicenter of the virus in the country.
Thirty seven cases was reported in Ondo, twenty nine in Osun, Ekiti has nine, eight in Oyo and three in Ogun.
With the latest figure, confirmed cases of coronavirus disease in Nigeria have increased to forty three thousand, five hundred and thirty seven.
FCT-130, Lagos-65, Ondo-37, Osun-29, Plateau-23, Rivers-15, Enugu-14, Nasarawa-12, Bayelsa-11, Ebonyi-11, Ekiti-9, Oyo-8, Edo-8, Abia-6, Ogun-3, Katsina-3, Imo-1, Adamawa-1
Death toll is now eight hundred and eighty three.