249 persons have so far died in Nigeria from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC), announced this on Tuesday while confirming 276 new cases in 15 states.
With this figure, a total of 8,344 confirmed COVID-19 cases have now been recorded in 34 states and the federal capital territory while the number of discharged persons now stand at 2,385.
The 276 new cases were recorded thus: Lagos-161, Rivers-36, Edo-27, Kaduna-19, Nasarawa-10, Oyo-6, Kano-4, Delta-3, Ebonyi-3, Gombe-2, Ogun-1, Ondo-1, Borno-1, Abia-1, Bauchi-1
