A total of 631 new cases of COVID-19were reported from 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday.
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed this on Friday in an early-morning Facebook post while giving an update on the outbreak of the disease in the country.
Of the new cases reported on September 2, Lagos reported the highest cases of 172 – representing about 27 per cent of the total single-day tally.
Others are Oyo – 93, Rivers – 72, Edo – 63, Kastina – 29, Abia – 26, FCT – 23, Kano – 23, Bayelsa – 20, Ogun – 20, Ekiti – 18, Anambra – 16, Delta – 16, Osun – 14, Imo – 11, Benue – six, Enugu – four, Jigawa – two, Niger – two, and Nasarawa – one.
As Nigeria battles the third wave of the pandemic, the agency disclosed that eight more people have died of complications related to the disease.
