The nationwide total of COVID-19 cases now stands at 191,805
since the start of the pandemic, according to Nigeria Centre for Disease
Control NCDC.
One death recorded in the past 24 hours raised fatalities in
the country to 2,455
Two hundred and nine patients were discharged after
recovering from the virus, this pushed the number of people who have recovered so far to
178,492.
Active cases further increased from 10,608 to 10,858 from
the previous day.
About 51,891 additional tests were completed in one week.
Nigeria has now completed a total of 2,779,725 tests since the pandemic
outbreak in the country.
The data provided by the NCDC indicated that Rivers state with
164 infections registered the highest number of cases on Monday, Lagos, which came
second recorded 139 cases and Edo in third position reported 61 cases.
Others states with new infections on Monday are FCT-37, Bayelsa-20,
Oyo-14, Plateau-7, Ogun-6, Anambra-4, Benue-4, Enugu-2, Cross River-1, and
Kaduna-1.
NCDC also added that today’s report includes six states -Brono,
Ekiti, Nasarawa, Osun, Ondo and Sokoto with zero cases reported.
