The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has come out to say that 825 tests yielded the 195 positive results recently announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, yesterday.
He revealed this during the daily briefing by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja.
The 195 cases reported is the highest Nigeria has ever recorded in a day since the pandemic began in Nigeria.
On the 195 new cases, NCDC said 80 were recorded in Lagos state, 38-Kano 15-Ogun, 15-Bauchi, 11-Borno, 10-Gombe, 9-Sokoto, 5-Edo, 5-Jigawa, 2-Zamfara, 1-Rivers, 1-Enugu, 1-Delta, 1-FCT, 1-Nasarawa.
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