Covid-19: Imo Has Highest Cases In South East

With a record of 13 new Covid-19 cases in Imo State, it takes the total number to 303 with only Abia State behind with 302 cases in the entire South East of Nigeria.

Imo which was the last state to report a Covid-19 case in the South East now takes the lead in the zone, contributing 13 out of the 490 cases reported by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC for June 28, 2020.

Enugu recorded a new case with 3, Anambra and Abia didn’t record any new case, while Lagos is at the top with 118 new cases, taking their total to 10,144 cases.

Out of the 303 confirmed cases in Imo State, about 86% cases at 261 are still active, with 38 recoveries (12.5%) and 4 deaths.

Nigeria has so far recorded 24,567 cases of Covid-19 with only Egypt ahead with 65,118 cases in the entire Africa.

The 490 new cases reported by NCDC in Nigeria for June 28, 2020, are distributed as thus: Lagos-118, Delta-84, Ebonyi-68, FCT-56, Plateau-39, Edo-29, Katsina-21, Imo-13, Ondo-12, Adamawa-11, Osun-8, Ogun-8, Rivers-6, Kano-5, Enugu-3, Bauchi-3, Akwa Ibom-3, Kogi-1, Oyo-1 and Bayelsa-1.