Covid-19: Nigeria Records Highest Daily Death Toll, 490 New Cases

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Nigeria on Tuesday announced 31 deaths from Covid-19 as the country’s death toll reached 455.

The death toll was the highest number ever announced in a single day in the country.

Twenty five of the deaths occurred in Lagos, the NCDC said.

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But it noted that the figure covered the fatalities recorded in four days.

The NCDC also announced 490 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Tuesday.

The 490 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed cases to 17,148.

The NCDC also announced the discharge of 274 patients from isolation centers.

“On the 16th of June 2020, 490 new confirmed cases and 31 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.

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No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.

“Till date, 17148 cases have been confirmed, 5623 cases have been discharged and 455 covid-19 death toll have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory,” the NCDC said.

The Breakdown of the Latest Figures:

Lagos-142
FCT-60
Bayelsa-54
Rivers-39
Delta-37
Oyo-30
Kaduna-26
Imo-23
Enugu-19
Kwara-17
Gombe-11
Ondo-10
Bauchi-8
Ogun-7
Borno-6
Benue-1

17,148 confirmed
5,623 discharged
455 deaths

covid-19 death toll

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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