Nigeria breaks COVID-19 record with highest daily cases on Friday

Nigeria has set a new record in daily COVID-19 cases, after recording 796 new cases on Friday, indicative of the outbreak of a second wave of the virus.

Friday’s was the highest daily record ever published by the NCDC and broke the 19 June record when 745 cases were registered.

According to the data released by the NCDC on Friday, the new cases came from Abuja and 15 states.

Here is a breakdown of the latest 796 cases;

FCT-258
Lagos-248
Kaduna-117
Katsina-52
Ogun-27
Kwara-23
Gombe-22
Adamawa-17
Plateau-15
Kano-6
Rivers-2
Ondo-2
Ekiti-2
Nasarawa-2
Sokoto-2
Taraba-1

72,140 confirmed
65,722 discharged
1,190 deaths