Kogi State in Nigeria’s North-Central has recorded two cases of the novel COVID-19 virus.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said this Wednesday night.
It was the first time that positive results were confirmed for Kogi since the outbreak in Nigeria – exactly three months ago.
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In its tweet, NCDC announced 389 new patients and 5 new deaths.
The new cases are in 22 states of the federation.
The top five are Lagos – 256, Katsina – 23, Edo – 22, Rivers – 14 and Kano – 13.
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There are now 8733 cases; 2501 have been discharged and 254 deaths recorded.
Coronavirus has affected over 5.7milliom people and killed 356,000 across several countries.
Almost 2.5million have recovered from the pandemic that sparked a global crisis.
