Nigeria on Monday recorded 422 new COVID-19 infections and five deaths from the disease.
While the figure of the new infections is less than the 471 recorded 24 hours earlier, the same could not be said of the fatality figure as the number of deaths reported rose from two on Sunday to five on Monday,
In an update on its Facebook page Monday night, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the new cases were recorded in eight states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The disease centre said the latest figure of confirmed cases has increased Nigeria’s infection toll to 178,508 while the fatality toll now stands at 2,192.
A breakdown of the NCDC data revealed that Lagos State reported 190 cases while Rivers State in the South-south came second on the log with 86 infections and Ogun State, which shares a border with Lagos, ranked third with 85 new cases.
Oyo State came fourth with 22 cases and is followed by the FCT with 20. Kwara State recorded seven while Edo State registered five.
Abia State also reported four cases while Bayelsa State came last on the log with three infections.
Meanwhile, with the rising cases recorded on a daily basis, the number of active cases in Nigeria has jumped to more than 9,000.
Nigeria has tested over 2.5 million samples out of its estimated 200 million population.
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