The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 106 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 162,997.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday.
The country’s daily new cases continue to follow a downward trajectory, from an all-time high of 2,314 on Jan. 22, the country’s daily new positive cases came down to 48, as at March 29.
The agency stated that the country has tested 1,767,694 people since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announced on Feb. 27, 2020.
The Nigeria’s public health institute reported one additional coronavirus related death in the last 24 hours, which brought the death toll now to 2,058.
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“Today’s death is from a backlog of data from Rivers,” it noted.
The agency said that the 106 new cases were reported from 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
It said that Lagos State recorded the highest number of cases with 33 which brought the total number of infections in Lagos State to 57,713, FCT 20, Cross River 11, Rivers 11, Kaduna 7 and Edo 6.
Others were Ondo 6, Nasarawa 3, Ogun 3, Kano 2, Bauchi 2 and Osun 2.
