675 new cases of covid-19 has been recorded in Nigeria on Thursday, December 10, 2020, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, has said.
NCDC has said Nigeria is now in the second wave of the novel virus which first hit Nigeria in March after an Italian man visited Ogun state with the virus.
A breakdown of the new cases across different states in the country is as follows; FCT-183, Lagos-128, Kaduna-85, Kwara-57, Katsina-50, Plateau-42, Rivers-39, Kano-33, Ondo-21, Ogun-17, Bauchi-10, Sokoto-5, Edo-2, Ekiti-1, Bayelsa-1, and Delta-1.
The 675 new cases of covid-19 now brings the total number of confirmed cases to 71,344. 1,190 deaths has been recorded while 65,474 patients have recovered from the virus.