The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has just announced 587 new cases of COVID-19 and increase in deaths from 455 to 469.
With the 587 new cases, Nigeria now has a total 17,735 cases, 5966 recoveries, and 469 deaths.
Making the disclosure via its Twitter handle, the NCDC said: “As at 11:45 pm 17th June 2020, there are 17735 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria”.
587 new cases of #COVID19 reported;
It also splitted the 587 new cases into states of occurrence as follows:
Lagos-155
Edo-75
FCT-67
Rivers-65
Oyo-56
Delta-50
Bayelsa-25
Plateau-18
Kaduna-18
Enugu-17
Borno-12
Ogun-12
Ondo-7
Kwara-4
Kano-2
Gombe-2
Sokoto-1
Kebbi-1