The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 371 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 158,906.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle late Monday.
The agency also registered 13 additional COVID-19-related deaths, raising the total fatality in the country to 1,982.
The centre said the new infections were registered across 16 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the past 24 hours.
It added that Lagos topped the list with 102 infections, followed by Enugu with 65, then Edo with 56, and FCT with 23 of the new cases.
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Other states with new COVID-19 infections were Ogun-20, Osun-18, Bayelsa-18, Rivers-15, Kaduna-14, Plateau-10, Oyo-eight, Bauchi-7 Kano-5 Delta-4, Nasarawa-3, Niger-2, and Ekiti-1.
The agency said 461 people had been successfully treated and discharged from different isolation centres across the country within the past 24 hours. (NAN)
