Nigeria Records 749 New Cases of Coronavirus and 3 Deaths

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749 new cases of Coronavirus and 3 deaths were recorded in Nigeria on Tuesday, December 29 as confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

To date, 85,560 cases have been confirmed, 71,937 cases have been discharged and 1,267 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. A total of 937,712 tests have been carried out as of December 29th, 2020 compared to 932,327 tests a day earlier.

According to the NCDC, the 749 new cases were reported from 19 states- Lagos (299), Plateau (131), Kaduna (83), FCT (74), Kwara (35), Sokoto (26), Edo (18), Kano (17), Katsina (16), Delta (11), Nasarawa (10), Ondo (9), Bauchi (9), Rivers (5), Akwa Ibom (3), Jigawa (1), Osun (1) and Ekiti (1).