The Enugu State government on Sunday announced 15 new cases of COVID-19.
The state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ikechukwu Obi, who disclosed this in a statement in Enugu, said the fresh cases brought the total number of the people that had contracted the virus in the state to 741.
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Obi said the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) also confirmed the new cases in its daily update.
The commissioner said: “The number of receiving treatment stood at 299 while 425 had been discharged after two post-treatment tests which came out negative. 17 patients were also confirmed dead.”
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