COVID-19: NCDC confirms 1340 new infections, toll now 136030

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,340 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 136,030.

The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country has so far tested 1,302,410 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020.

The agency also confirmed additional coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours bringing the death toll to 1,632 in the country.

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It noted that the 1,340 new COVID-19 infections were from 21 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

1340 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

FCT-320
Lagos-275
Rivers-117
Oyo-100
Akwa Ibom-57
Ogun-51
Ebonyi-48
Benue-44
Adamawa-42
Imo-38
Kwara-35
Gombe-32
Kaduna-31
Edo-29
Osun-29
Kano-24
Ekiti-15
Katsina-14
Delta-13
Nasarawa-13
Jigawa-10
Sokoto-3 pic.twitter.com/GVt9MXdnBC

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) February 4, 2021