Nigeria records 590 New COVID-19 Cases,Eight Deaths

Nigeria on Friday recorded 590 COVID-19 infections. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Saturday.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 590 COVID-19 cases across 17 states and the federal capital territory (FCT) .

The agency said the  states that recorded positives cases are Lagos (308), Akwa Ibom (54), Katsina (40), Oyo (39), Rivers (26), Niger (23), Gombe (19), Ogun (16), and Ekiti (15).

Others are FCT (10), Nasarawa (10), Delta (9), Bayelsa (5), Plateau (5), Imo (4), Ebonyi (3), Jigawa (3), and Kano (1).

The NCDC in its update said the report for Friday includes 12 cases reported for Niger state for July 28 and 11 cases for July 29.

It said that the report also contains cases reported for Delta state for July 10 (1), July 11 (1), July 13 (3), and July 29 (4),adding that 48 persons were discharged after recovering from the infection.

Besides, the agency  said eight persons died from the infection on Friday, bringing the total number of fatalities to 2,149.