The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Saturday, February 6, 2021, announced that the country recorded 1,588 new cases of Covid-19, bringing to total of 139,242 confirmed cases in the country.
The Centre also disclosed that 15 persons died of COVID-19 complications while 2,108 persons recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres across the country on Saturday.
“Our discharges today include 498 community recoveries in Lagos State, 64 in Kano State and 54 in Plateau State managed in line with guidelines.”
The following revealed that these states had: Lagos (535), Anambra (218), Oyo (155), FCT (150), Kano (124), Gombe (60), Kaduna (49), Ebonyi (48), Plateau (46), Akwa Ibom (39), Niger (37), Edo (33), Katsina (23), Rivers (18), Taraba (15), Nasarawa (14), Ogun (11), Delta (9), Ekiti (2), and Jigawa (2).
Currently, Nigeria’s confirmed COVID-19 cases stand at 139,242; 112,557 recoveries, 1,647 fatalities and 25,038 active cases.