LAGOS State accounted for more than half of the 338 new COVID-19 cases announced last night by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). It recorded 177.
Others are: Kano (64); FCT (21); Rivers (16); Plateau (14); Oyo (11); Katsina (nine); Jigawa and Kaduna (four each); three each in Abia, Bauchi and Borno; two each in Gombe, Akwa Ibom and Delta. Ondo, Kebbi and Sokoto recorded a case each.
The new figures took the national tally to 5959; discharged patients to 1594 and deaths recorded to 182.