Nigeria has recorded 537 new cases of COVID-19 in seven states and the federal capital territory (FCT).
The COVID-19 result was announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its daily update for Sunday, January 9.
A breakdown of the cases is as follows: Rivers-313, Lagos-178, FCT-19, Kaduna-11, Gombe-6, Ogun-6, Ekiti-3 and Abia-1.
The agency said 569 people were discharged after they recovered from the infection.
Six persons were said to have died of COVID complications, raising the total fatalities to 3,077.
With the new confirmed cases, Nigeria has now recorded a total of 248,312 infections and 218,996 recoveries.