The death toll remains 1,125 after no death was recorded in the last 24 hours. The last death count as a result of the virus was Monday when two patients died which took the tally to the latest figure.
Three out of every five deaths from the virus in Nigeria are in people over 50 years old, the agency said, indicating the impact of the virus on the elderly.
The 118 new cases are reported from 10 states – Lagos (51), Rivers (26), Imo (12), Osun (8), Plateau (6), FCT (5), Kaduna (4), Ogun (3), Edo (2), Niger (1).
Lagos, Nigeria’s coronavirus epicenter with over 20,000 infections, led in Thursday’s tally with 51 new cases.
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