Confirmed COVID 19 cases in Nigeria have reached 47,000, according to data released by the Nigerian Centre for Diseases Control NCDC on Tuesday.

The centre on Tuesday night, announced 423 new confirmed COVID-19 cases.

The new cases were reported from 22 states: Lagos (117), FCT (40), Ondo (35), Rivers (28), Osun (24), Benue (21), Abia (19), Ogun (19), Ebonyi (18), Delta (17), Kwara (17), Kaduna (15), Anambra (14), Ekiti (11), Kano (9), Imo (6), Gombe (4), Oyo (3), Taraba (3), Bauchi (1), Edo (1) and Nasarawa (1).

It brought the total in the country to 47,290.

In all, 956 deaths have been recorded so far, with  33,609 patients discharged.