Cases of coronavirus in Nigeria have increased to 17,735 as 587 new ones have been recorded on Wednesday.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, made this known on its Twitter handle.
Lagos has the highest figure among the states of the federation with 155 cases.
NCDC’s tweets announcing the figures read:
“587 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-155
Edo-75
FCT-67
Rivers-65
Oyo-56
Delta-50
Bayelsa-25
Plateau-18
Kaduna-18
Enugu-17
Borno-12
Ogun-12
Ondo-7
Kwara-4
Kano-2
Gombe-2
Sokoto-1
Kebbi-1
“17,735 confirmed
5,967 discharged
469 deaths.”