The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that 1565 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Thursday January 7.

The health agency gave a breakdown of the new cases as follows; Lagos-807, FCT-236, Kaduna-79, Oyo-57, Plateau-47, Rivers-37, Katsina-35, Edo-30, Sokoto-30, Delta-26, Kebbi-23, Ondo-20, Enugu-18, Abia-17, Ogun-17, Benue-16, Bayelsa-15, Bauchi-14, Niger-13, Kano-10, Borno-6, Imo-5, Ekiti-4, Osun-2, Jigawa-1.

There are now 95, 934 confirmed cases of the disease in the country and 1330 deaths have been recorded. 77,982 patients who recovered from the disease have also been discharged.

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