COVID-19: Nigeria Records 97 New Cases, Five Deaths

 

97 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Thursday March 25, as announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

A breakdown of the new cases is as follows; Lagos-50, Kaduna-12, FCT-10, Bayelsa-8, Imo-3, Kwara-3, Bauchi-2, Osun-2, Akwa Ibom-1, Edo-1, Kano-1, Ogun-1, Oyo-1, Plateau-1, Zamfara-1.

There are now 162,275 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the country and 2,036 deaths have been recorded. 149,882 patients who recovered from the disease have also been discharged.

After a few days of respite, Nigeria recorded five deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday.

For six of the past nine days, nobody died from the highly infectious disease.

The five deaths on Thursday, however, raised the total fatalities in the country to 2,036.