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COVID 19: NIGERIA RECORDS 90 NEW CASES OF IN 7 STATES, ABUJA

By Salami Azeez

November 02, 2021

As the battle against COVID-19 continues, Nigeria has recorded 90 new cases of the deadly disease in seven states and the federal capital territory (FCT) on Monday.

The COVID result was announced by the Nigeria Centte for Disease Control (NCDC) in its daily update for Monday, November 1.

According to the agency, the states that recorded new infections are Lagos (33), FCT (15), Nasarawa (14), Cross River (11), Rivers (11), and Kano (3), Bayelsa (2), Kaduna (1).

The NCDC said the report for Monday includes 22 and 11 cases reported from Lagos on October 31 and November 1 respectively.

According to the agency, 217 persons were discharged after recovering from the virus.

The NCDC said two persons died from the virus on Monday, increasing the total number of fatalities to 2,898.

Currently, Nigeria has 212,051 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 203, 338 recoveries.