Nigeria on Sunday registered 537 new COVID-19
cases in 7 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Sunday's daily coronavirus infections marked a
decrease from Saturday’s case count, when the nation reported 766 COVID-19
cases.
With the new cases, the total number of
confirmed cases in the nation has risen to 248,312, the Health Officials said
in its daily report.
Over the past 24 hours, Rivers state saw 313 more cases, while 178 new infections were
recorded in Lagos and 19 cases in FCT.
Kaduna state reported 11 cases, Gombe, Ogun, Ekiti
and Abia reported 6, 6, 3 and 1 cases respectively.
The health officials added zero cases were reported
from Bauchi, Delta, Nasarawa, Plateau, Ondo, Osun and Sokoto.
Meanwhile, six patients died from the novel
coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the total fatalities count in Nigeria
to 3,077
While 570 others were cured and discharged
from hospitals across the nation, increasing the total recoveries to 218,997,
the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC said in a statement published via
its official Facebook page.
Total COVID-19 recoveries in Nigeria is
currently over 88.2 percent of the total cases registered in the most populous
country in Africa.
As of today, there are an estimated 26,238
active cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria – down from 26,277 it was the previous day.
