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Nigeria records 132 new COVID-19 cases

By Uchechi Ojo September 15, 2020331 views

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, disclosed on Monday night, September 14 2020, via its official Twitter handle that the country has recorded 132 new cases of the coronavirus.

Of the new cases, 52 were reported in Lagos, 27 in Gombe, 17 in Plateau, 10 in Kwara, with Enugu and Ogun states recording 9 cases each.

Others are Katsina – 3, Ekiti – 2, Bauchi, Osun and Rivers with 1 new case each.

The new reported cases now bring the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 56,388.

However, 44,337 people have recovered from the virus and have been discharged from isolation centres across the country while 1,083 have died.

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