Fresh 348 New COVID-19 Cases Push Total Infections Above 11,000

Oyinlola Awonuga
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348 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in Nigeria taking the total number of infections in the country to 11,166.

This is according to the latest figures released by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) late on Wednesday via its verified Twitter handle.

Of the cases, 163 were recorded in Lagos, 76 in the FCT, and 23 in Ebonyi the agency stated. 

Other affected states included Rivers with 21 cases, Delta, Nasarawa, and Niger with eight each, Enugu with six, five each in Bauchi, Edo, Ekiti, Ondo, and Gombe, four in Benue, two in Ogun, and one each in Osun, Plateau, Kogi, and Anambra.

The death toll stands at 315 while a total of 3,329 have recovered from the disease and have been discharged.

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