Nigeria’s total COVID-19 cases breached 8000 mark on Monday, with 229 cases reported by the country, despite efforts by authorities to flatten the curve of the pandemic.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed this in a tweet late in the night.
This takes the country’s total infections to 8,068 out of which 2,311 have been discharged with 233 losing their lives.
Data from the NCDC showed that the cases were spread across 14 states and the FCT with Lagos accounting for the highest number of infections for the day with 90 cases.
229 new cases of #COVID19;
Lagos-90
Katsina-27
Imo-26
Kano-23
FCT-14
Plateau-12
Ogun-9
Delta-7
Borno-5
Rivers-5
Oyo-4
Gombe-3
Osun-2
Anambra-1
Bayelsa-18068 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 2311
Deaths: 233 pic.twitter.com/7gTwYOOegz— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 25, 2020
