The new infection figure raised Nigeria’s total infections to 177,142 while the fatality toll stood at 2,181.
The NCDC data revealed that Lagos, the epicentre of the disease, recorded the lion share with 348 new infections.
Rivers State came second on the chart with 70 cases while Akwa Ibom State followed with 45 and Oyo State ranked fourth with 36 cases. The FCT recorded 24 while Ekiti State recorded 15 infections, and Kwara and Ogun States reported seven new cases each.Bayelsa, Cross River, Edo, Plateau, Kano and Sokoto states recorded the lowest figure of one infection each.
Meanwhile, according to the NCDC data, of the over 177,000 total cases, 165,409 people have recovered and have been discharged from hospitals across the country. The centre added that Nigeria has tested more than 2.5 million samples out of its estimated 200 million population.
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