COVID-19: Nigeria Records 304 New Cases, Total Infections Now 43,841
Total number of cases rises to 43,841, with 20,308 discharged and 888 confirmed deaths according to the NCDC
Tanitoluwa J. Adedotun 
The prevailing authority on Coronavirus in Nigeria, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has on Sunday night announced 304 new cases of the COVID-19, pushing the total number of confirmed infections to 43,841.
The 304 new cases are reported from 15 states- Lagos (81), FCT (39), Abia (31), Kaduna (24), Rivers (23), Plateau (16), Cross River (13), Ebonyi (12), Ondo (12) Ekiti (11), Edo (11), Benue (10), Nasarawa (10), Ogun (6), Gombe (5).
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In the short span of 5 days, 20 deaths have been recorded, as the total number now shoots to 888 in the whole nation.
A multi-sectoral national emergency operations center (EOC), activated at Level 3, continues to coordinate the national response activities according to the information presented by the NCDC.
Nigeria is Africa’s third most impacted country behind South Africa and Egypt.
The federal and state governments are working to increase testing as authorities stress that cases definitely far exceed the current tally.
