Nigeria has recorded 665 new cases of COVID-19 with eight more deaths in the past 24 hours., according to an update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday night.
The Centre said that twelve states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded new infections for the day under review.
A breakdown of the figures showed that Lagos – the nation’s COVID-19 epicentre– topped the list with 369 more cases as the FCT recorded just three new infections.
Other states with new cases included Anambra – 68, Oyo – 63, Akwa Ibom – 48, Kwara – 28, Rivers – 26, Edo – 21, Ekiti – 15, Ondo – 13, Delta – 7, Ogun – 3, and Gombe – 1.
However, the agency said that 117 people recovered from the disease on Saturday.
It said that they had also been discharged from various isolation centres in the country.
The country has, so far, successfully managed and discharged 166,826 people who had contracted the virus.
But 2,219 fatalities, according to the NCDC, had been recorded since the country confirmed its index case on February 28, 2020.
As of Sunday morning, the NCDC said there were 12,917 active cases in the West African nation with many under home care management.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Nigeria has collected over 2,589,130, samples across the federation with a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2 to continue coordinating the national response activities.
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