At least eight states in Nigeria have less than 10 COVID-19 positive cases currently on admission, as of the morning of Thursday, September 3.

They are: Taraba (9), Jigawa (3), Kebbi (3) Sokoto (1), Cross River (1), Zamfara (0), Yobe (0) and Kogi (0).

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night, confirmed 216 new cases from 16 states: Plateau (59), Rivers (27), Abia (22), Lagos (20), Oyo (18), Enugu (17), Kaduna (11), FCT (11), Ogun (10), Ebonyi (4), Osun (4), Ekiti (4), Delta (3), Edo (3), Akwa Ibom (2) and Bauchi (1).

It brings the tally in the country to 54,463.

Of that number, 42,439 have been discharged, while 1,027 deaths have been recorded.

NCDC added that “A multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, continues to coordinate the national response activities.”