The governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, has announced that 13 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the state on Friday.
The state Governor, who announced this during a review of the COVID-19 activities in government House Lafia said 13 people tested positive out of the 78 samples taken by NCDC.
Governor Sule also said that “cases coming out of the state should be a cause for worry for everyone.”
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Nigeria recorded 381 fresh COVID-19 cases in the country, it’s highest new infection rate since the virus hit in late February.
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According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), this brings the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 3526 cases.
The breakdown of the new cases include;
183-Lagos
55-Kano
44-Jigawa
19-Zamfara
19-Bauchi
11-Katsina
9-Borno
8-Kwara
7-Kaduna
6-Gombe
5-Ogun
4-Sokoto
3-Oyo
3-Rivers
2-Niger
1-Akwa Ibom
1-Enugu
1-Plateau
601 individuals have been treated and recovered from the virus while 107 death have been recorded.