4 DEAD, AS PLATEAU AGAIN TOPS 216 COVID19 NIGERIA CASES

Plateau State again led with Covid19 Nigeria new cases highest in the North but fell in Lagos and the South with 216 new cases on Wednesday.

TheConscience reports that while the North has 82 cases, the South East recorded 43 cases while the South West had 56 with the South-South taking the lowest hit with 35 new cases across the region on Wednesday.

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control NCDC gave the new figures on its website late Wednesday September 2, 2020, with 216 newly confirmed cases and four deaths recorded as the rate of confirmed Coronavirius cases continues to drop across Nigeria with Plateau State maintaining a worrisome lead as the new epicenter and responsible for the high cases in the Northern region of Nigeria, this online newspaper reports.

The government authority said, “On the 2nd of September 2020, 216 new confirmed cases and 4 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.

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Till date, 411,077 tested; 54,463 cases have been confirmed, 42439 cases have been discharged and 1027 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory
The 216 new cases are reported from 16 states- Plateau (59), Rivers (27), Abia (22), Lagos (20), Oyo (18), Enugu (17), Kaduna (11), FCT (11), Ogun (10), Ebonyi (4), Osun (4), Ekiti (4), Delta (3), Edo (3), Akwa Ibom (2), Bauchi (1)

From TheConscience Covid19 Nigeria analysis, from the 82 Cases in the North, Plateau State remains a flash point with 59 new cases from a recent 69 and 44 tallies; FCT and Kaduna both recorded 11 cases respectively as against 41 and 14 recently.

In South West, Lagos maintains its downward pick of 20 instead of 21 having dropped drastically from its average of over 100 cases daily to 17 and 21 cases lately. In Oyo, Coronavirus drops also from its earlier tallies of 31 and 9 to 18 cases; Ogun rose to 10 cases while Osun and Ekiti had 4 each as against 11 and 8.

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Ebonyi had 11 from 0, Abia and Anambra had 8 and 7 from 0 with 26 for the South-East while Rivers with 7 cases gave the least concern to the South-South

216 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Plateau-59
Rivers-27
Abia-22
Lagos-20
Oyo-18
Enugu-17
Kaduna-11
FCT-11
Ogun-10
Ebonyi-4
Osun-4
Ekiti-4
Delta-3
Edo-3
Akwa Ibom-2
Bauchi-1

54,463 confirmed
42,439 discharged
1,027 deaths