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Nigeria recorded 239 new COVID-19 cases in the new report released via twitter by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday.
The report indicates that 15 States were recorded in new cases led by Plateau State with 116 cases, followed by the FCT with 33 and Lagos with 19.
Other states are as follows: Ekiti-12 Kaduna-11 Ogun-11 Ebonyi-8 Benue-7 Abia-5 Delta-5 Ondo-4 Edo-3 Imo-2 Osun-2 Bauchi-1.
The total confirmed infections in Nigeria are 54,247 – while 42,010 have been discharged, the total of persons that died as a result of the infection has risen to 1,023.