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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Nigeria, on Tuesday, recorded 1,301 new COVID-19 cases in the country.<\/p>\n

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the figure in a tweet via its Twitter handle Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Lagos, FCT and Oyo top the list with 551, 209 and 83 cases, respectively.<\/p>\n

According to the NCDC, Nigeria recorded fifteen additional deaths in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Nigeria has now recorded 113,305 COVID-19 cases and 1,464 deaths officially.<\/p>\n

NCDC tweeted: 1,301 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
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\nRivers-44
\nOndo-39
\nBenue-37
\nAkwa Ibom-31
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\nOgun-16
\nEdo-15
\nKebbi-10
\nEbonyi-9
\nJigawa-4
\nOsun-3
\nZamfara-3
\nBorno-1
\nNasarawa-1
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\n91,200 discharged
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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Nigeria, on Tuesday, recorded 1,301 new COVID-19 cases in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the figure in a tweet via its Twitter handle Tuesday night. Lagos, FCT and Oyo top the list with 551, 209 and 83 cases, respectively. According to the NCDC, Nigeria recorded fifteen additional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1585,254],"class_list":["post-35390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-covid-19-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nNigeria records 1301 new COVID-19 cases, 15 more deaths - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria, on Tuesday, recorded 1,301 new COVID-19 cases in the country.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-1301-new-covid-19-cases-15-more-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria records 1301 new COVID-19 cases, 15 more deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria, on Tuesday, recorded 1,301 new COVID-19 cases in the country.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-1301-new-covid-19-cases-15-more-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-20T17:29:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-60085a1174c83.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1161\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-1301-new-covid-19-cases-15-more-deaths#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-1301-new-covid-19-cases-15-more-deaths\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria records 1301 new COVID-19 cases, 15 more deaths\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-20T17:29:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-1301-new-covid-19-cases-15-more-deaths\"},\"wordCount\":105,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-1301-new-covid-19-cases-15-more-deaths#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-60085a1174c83.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Covid-19\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-1301-new-covid-19-cases-15-more-deaths#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-1301-new-covid-19-cases-15-more-deaths\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-records-1301-new-covid-19-cases-15-more-deaths\",\"name\":\"Nigeria records 1301 new COVID-19 cases, 15 more deaths - 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