COVID-19: NCDC says 13,447 patients treated, discharged

 

BY NICHOLAS ABE

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A total of 13,447 patients, out of 32,558 confirmed cases in Nigeria, have been treated of the coronavirus disease and discharged after testing negative, since the outbreak of the virus over four months ago.

According to an update published by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on its website on Sunday, Nigeria currently has 18,371 active cases of COVID-19 in various facilities across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

The NCDC also reported that 181,248 samples have so far been tested.

Meanwhile, the NCDC announced that 571 new cases were confirmed across the country on Sunday July 12 while 16 COVID-19 related deaths were recorded same day.

The 571 new cases were reported as follows: Lagos (152), Ebony i(108), Edo (53), Ondo (46), FCT (38), Oyo (20), Kwara (19), Plateau (17), Osun (14), Bayelsa (14), Ekiti (14), Katsina (14), Akwa Ibom (11), Kaduna (11), Rivers (11), Niger (10), Ogun (7), Kano (6), Cross River (4) and Bauchi (2).

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