The dreaded COVID 19 virus claimed 17 lives in twenty-four hours as Nigeria recorded 457 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing its total infections to 44,890.
This was contained in the new figures released by The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night via its official Twitter handle.
The new infections were recorded Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory, and 19 other states of the federation.
After a twenty-four hour reprieve, Lagos again topped the list with 137 cases, the FCT came second with 76 fresh infections and8 Plateau with 40 cases.
Four other states, Rivers, Enugu, Oyo and Abia recorded high figures of 35, 34, 25 and 23 cases respectively
Others include Delta – 12, Edo and Ebonyi – 11, Cross River and Kwara – 10, Kaduna – 9, Anambra – 7, Ogun – 5, Imo and Bauchi – 3, Osun and Nasarawa – 2, Kano and Ekiti – 1.
On a positive note, 314 persons have been discharged in the last 24 hours after recovering from the virus thus bringing the total number of discharged to 32,165.
The 17 new deaths increased the number of fatalities in the country to 927.
