COVID-19:Nigeria records 389 new cases as total rises to 12,233

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded 389 new cases of the COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 12,233.

NCDC announced this through its official Twitter handle and said that as at June 6, 389 new confirmed cases from 23 states and nine deaths were recorded in the country.

The new cases took the country’s total infections to 12,233, with 3,826 patients successfully treated and discharged, and 8065 actives cases.

According to NCDC, Lagos reported 66 new cases, the FCT 50, Delta 32, Oyo 31, Borno 26, Rivers 24, while Edo and Ebonyi recorded 23 new cases each.

Other states where new cases where found were  Anambra and  Gombe with 17 cases each, Nasarawa 14, Imo, Kano and Sokoto with 12 each, Jigawa - 8, Ogun -7, Bauchi -5, Kebbi -2, Kaduna -2, Katsina -2, Ondo -2, Abia -1 and Niger 1.