The number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria has increased to 18,480 as 745 new ones were recorded on Thursday.
Lagos has 280 cases, being the highest recorded among the states of the federation.
The figures were released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on its Twitter handle.
The tweets read:
“745 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-280
Oyo-103
Ebonyi-72
FCT-60
Imo-46
Edo-34
Delta-33
Rivers-25
Kaduna-23
Ondo-16
Katsina-12
Kano-10
Bauchi-8
Borno-7
Kwara-5
Gombe-4
Sokoto-2
Enugu-2
Yobe-1
Osun-1
Nasarawa-1
“18,480 confirmed
6,307 discharged
475 deaths.”
