{"id":34177,"date":"2020-12-31T17:55:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=34177"},"modified":"2020-12-31T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T16:42:43","slug":"11-covid-19-deaths-recorded-as-nigeria-confirms-1016-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/11-covid-19-deaths-recorded-as-nigeria-confirms-1016-new-cases","title":{"rendered":"11 COVID-19 deaths recorded as Nigeria confirms 1,016 new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday confirmed that eleven patients died as a result of COVID-19 related complications in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>NCDC disclosed this via its Twitter account, adding that 1,016 new infections of the virus were also recorded in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The NCDC said that the new infections were reported from 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases across the country to 86,576, with 1278 deaths recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet read: \u201c1,016 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-434, FCT-155, Plateau-94, Kaduna-56, Rivers-56, Oyo-30, Nasarawa-27, Zamfara-25, Abia -22, Enugu-18, Kano-18, Bayelsa-15, Edo-14, Ogun-11, Borno-10, Ebonyi-10, Jigawa-7, Anambra -4, Delta-3, Niger-3, Osun-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday confirmed that eleven patients died as a result of COVID-19 related complications in the last 24 hours. NCDC disclosed this via its Twitter account, adding that 1,016 new infections of the virus were also recorded in the country. 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