{"id":14086,"date":"2020-05-20T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=14086"},"modified":"2020-05-20T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:56:11","slug":"226-new-cases-of-covid-19-push-nigerias-total-to-6401-death-toll-now-192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=14086","title":{"rendered":"226 new cases of COVID-19 push Nigeria\u2019s total to 6401; death toll now 192"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday confirmed 226 new COVID-19 cases<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new discoveries, according to the daily update on the COVID-19 situation in the country published on the centre\u2019s Twitter handle, had increased the confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 6,401.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of fatalities had also increased from 190 to 192 in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, 1, 734 patients had returned to their families after they were given a clean bill of health by medical personnel across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The breakdown of the new figure on state-by-state basis revealed the following: Lagos (131), Ogun (25), Plateau (15), Edo (11), Kaduna (7), Oyo (6) and FCT (5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others are \u2013 Adamawa (5), Jigawa (4), Ebonyi (4), Borno (4), Nasarawa (3), Bauchi (2), Gombe (2), Enugu (1) and Bayelsa (1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCDC<\/a> said: \u201c6401 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDischarged: 1734 AND Deaths: 192.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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