Benue records two cases of coronavirus amid preparations for LG election

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded three hundred and eighty-nine, 389, COVID-19 cases in the country.

Benue recorded two cases in the latest report.

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed this in a tweet on its official Twitter page.

The agency said Lagos State for the first time recorded its highest cases in a day, 256.

Katsina State followed with 23 cases while Edo recorded 22.

With this development, Nigeria has 8733 confirmed cases of the disease.

The agency wrote: “389 new cases of #COVID19;

Lagos-256

Katsina-23

Edo-22

Rivers-14

Kano-13

Adamawa-11

Akwa Ibom-11

Kaduna-7

Kwara-6

Nasarawa-6

Gombe-2

Plateau-2

Abia-2

Delta-2

Benue-2

Niger-2

Kogi-2

Oyo-2

Imo-1

Borno-1

Ogun-1

Anambra-1

“8733 cases of #COVID19Nigeria

“Discharged: 2501.Deaths: 254”