Nigeria records 298 new COVID-19 cases, total now 49,068

Nigeria now has 49,068 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 298 new cases recorded on Sunday.

According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, 36,497 patients have now been discharged, with 975 patients losing their lives to the coronavirus.

The tweet revealed that Plateau state in the Northern region has the highest number of infections for the day night with 108 cases. Next to this is Kaduna with 49 cases. Lagos still with the highest cases in Nigeria was third on the record for the day with 47 newly infected people.

Other states read as follow:

Ogun-18

Osun-17

FCT-15

Ondo-14

Edo-8

Oyo-6

Akwa Ibom-4

Cross River-4

Borno-3

Ekiti-2

Bauchi-1

Kano-1

Rivers-1

Meanwhile, Russia on Saturday announced that it has produced the first batch of its coronavirus vaccine, after President Vladimir Putin said it had been first in the world to approve a vaccine.

Putin’s announcement on last week about the vaccine was met with caution from scientists and the World Health Organisation who said it still needed a rigorous safety review.

“The first batch of the novel coronavirus vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute has been produced,” the health ministry said in a statement just as India said it was ready to mass produce COVID-19 vaccines once scientists give the go-ahead.