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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Nigeria on Saturday recorded One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-Three (1883) new cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

This was announced on the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Twitter page on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

It confirmed that Nigeria now has 130,557 cases of the infection and the country had recorded a total of 1579 coronavirus-related deaths so far.<\/p>\n

NCDC said that the new infections were from 22 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n

It stated that Lagos State reported the highest number of infections with 1040 new cases while the FCT came second with 298 new infections.<\/p>\n

\u201cOthers are Anambra-86, Rivers-54, Taraba-45, Ogun-42, Oyo-40, Akwa Ibom-38, Sokoto-30, Ebonyi-30, Imo-28, Kaduna-28, Osun-27, Kano-21, Benue-19, Edo-17, Gombe-15, Ekiti-9, Delta-8, Jigawa-3, Kwara-2, Bayelsa-2 and Plateau-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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