At 11:44p.m. on Friday June 12, 2020, on a day Nigeria marked its Democracy Day, new cases of COVID-19 continued to rise in Nigeria as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), announced an additional 627 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases.
With the new addition, the ttal case now 15, 181, with 4,891 discharged cases and 399 deaths. Lagos State, which remains the epicentre of the disease with 229 new cases recorded while the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and Abia State followed with 65 and 54 cases respectively.
Recall that both the NCDC and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 have cautioned people to take responsibility especially now that the Federal Government has passed the battle against the control of the virus to the state governors.
The full list of the latest 627 new cases of #COVID19 Nigeria from the states are as follows:
Lagos-229
FCT-65
Abia-54
Borno-42
Oyo-35
Rivers-28
Edo-28
Gombe-27
Ogun-21
Plateau-18
Delta-18
Bauchi-10
Kaduna-10
Benue-9
Ondo-8
Kwara-6
Nasarawa-4
Enugu-4
Sokoto-3
Niger-3
Kebbi-3
Yobe-1
Kano-1
