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Lagos reports four new COVID-19 deaths

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4 years ago

June 1, 2020

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Lagos State has lost four more patients to the cold hands of the dreaded COVID-19 disease which has spread across the country and has killed over two hundred Nigerians since the outbreak of the pandemic.

A Situation Report 93 published on Monday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) revealed the update which now brings the total number of COVID-19 deaths recorded in the state to 54.

The Situation Report by the NCDC also revealed that in the last 24 hours, 14 COVID-19 deaths were recorded in eight states across the nation.

The report by the NCDC reads thus in part, “307 confirmed cases were reported in the last 24 hours in 15 states – Lagos (188), FCT (44), Ogun (19), Kaduna (14), Oyo (12), Bayelsa (9), Gombe (5), Delta (3), Kano (3), Bauchi (2), Imo (2), Niger (2), Rivers (2), Kwara (1) and Plateau (1).

“No new state recorded a confirmed COVID-19 case in the last 24 hours.

“The total number of states including FCT that have reported at least one confirmed case in Nigeria is still 36 (35 states + FCT).

“One hundred and fifty-one (151) cases were discharged in the last 24 hours in eight (8) states – Lagos (59), Kano (40), Jigawa (26), FCT (9), Rivers (7), Bauchi (6), Ogun (3) and Delta (1)

“14 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours in eight (8) states – Lagos (4), FCT (2), Gombe (2), Kano (2), Bauchi (1), Delta (1), Kaduna (1) and Rivers (1),” it added.

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