Nigeria’s total COVID-19 cases has risen to 49,068 with the confirmation of 298 new cases on Sunday.
The cases were reported from 15 states and the FCT.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which announced the new cases on its Twitter handle, said one patient died from the disease on the same day, to bring the total number of COVID-19 related deaths to 975.
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It said also that 36,497 patients who recovered from the disease have so far been discharged across the country.
Plateau State took the lead on the new infections table with 108 cases followed by Kaduna and Lagos states with 49 and 47 cases respectively.
Other states which recorded new infections are; Ogun (18), Osun (17), FCT (15), Ondo (14), Edo (8), Oyo (6), Akwa Ibom (4), Cross River (4), Borno (3), Ekiti (2), Bauchi (1), Kano (1) and Rivers (1).
