{"id":40495,"date":"2020-06-02T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T15:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=40495"},"modified":"2020-06-02T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T15:09:26","slug":"20-local-government-areas-with-highest-covid-19-cases-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/20-local-government-areas-with-highest-covid-19-cases-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Local Government Areas With Highest Covid 19 Cases In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 says 20 Local Government Areas account for 60 per cent of coronavirus cases in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Lagos Mainland Local Government, Abuja Municipal, Mushin (Lagos), Eti-Osa (Lagos), and Tarauni (Kano) have the highest cases in the country.<\/p>\n

The chairmen of PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, made this known at the COVID-19 daily news conference on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

According to him, Nigeria is ready to allow science and data to determine her cautious advancement into the second phase of the eased lockdown for a period of four weeks.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cIt is the consideration of the PTF that while Nigeria\u2019s confirmed cases have increased in the period under review, the following factors should inspire confidence in the response.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of the confirmed cases are in a handful of local government areas in the country as 20 out of the 774 LGAs nationwide account for 60 per cent of the cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mustapha explained that Nigeria has not reached the \u201cpeak\u201d of COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n

He added that the test count nationwide had exceeded 60,000.<\/p>\n

However, data obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control showed that 11 of the 20 Local Government Areas are in Lagos State.<\/p>\n

Here is the full list of the Local Governments, according to the NCDC\u2019s Situation Report 91:<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Lagos Mainland LG: 1274 cases<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 Abuja \u2013 Abuja Municipal: 536 cases<\/p>\n

3 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Mushin: 459 cases<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Eti-Osa: 403 cases<\/p>\n

5 \u2013 Kano \u2013 Tarauni: 248 cases<\/p>\n

6 \u2013 katsina \u2013 Katsina: 242 cases<\/p>

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7 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Alimosho: 239 cases<\/p>\n

8 \u2013 Borno \u2013 Maiduguri: 167 cases<\/p>\n

9 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Kosofe: 175 cases<\/p>\n

10 \u2013 Jigawa \u2013 Dutse: 170 cases<\/p>\n

11 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Ikeja: 168 cases<\/p>\n

12 \u2013 Kano \u2013 Nassarawa: 152 cases<\/p>\n

13 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Oshodi\/Isolo: 132 cases<\/p>\n

14 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Apapa: 131<\/p>\n

15 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Amuwo Odofin: 129<\/p>\n

16 \u2013 Edo \u2013 Oredo: 126<\/p>\n

17 \u2013 Bauchi \u2013 Bauchi 114 cases<\/p>\n

18 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Lagos Island \u2013 111 cases<\/p>\n

19 \u2013 Lagos \u2013 Surulere \u2013 110<\/p>\n

20 \u2013 Ogun \u2013 Ado Odo\/Ota \u2013 107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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