By Tayo Alabi
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday recorded 176 new cases of the novel coronavirus.
In a late-night tweet, the agency noted that the new cases were reported from 14 states of the federation, including Lagos (73).
Other states with new cases include Plateau (50), FCT (17), Rivers (8), Ondo (6), Niger (5), Ogun (5), Edo (3), Kaduna (3), Oyo (2), Bauchi (1), Bayelsa (1), Delta (1), and Nasarawa (1).
The new cases bring the country’s total caseload to 57,613 with 48,836 cases discharged and 1,100 deaths.
