COVID-19: Lagos records five new deaths

Five patients have died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State, The PUNCH reports.

This brings the total number of COVID-19 deaths in Lagos to 47.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known via its Situation Report 88 published on Wednesday.

According to the report, seven other states recorded 11 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Part of the report read, “276 confirmed cases were reported in the last 24 hours in 15 states – Lagos (161), Rivers (36), Edo(27), Kaduna (19), Nasarawa (10), Oyo (six), Kano (four), Delta (three), Ebonyi (three), Gombe (two), Abia (one), Bauchi (one), Borno (one), Ogun (one) and Ondo (one). Punch