The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC, on Tuesday, announced that the country has recorded 13 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19).

NCDC who disclosed this on its official Facebook handle said the new cases were recorded in Lagos, Kaduna and Rivers with 5, 4 and 4 cases respectively.

While five states; Abia, Delta, FCT, Kano and Sokoto reported zero cases.

Tuesday’s 13 new cases which indicated a significant decrease from the 37 infections recorded on Saturday took the total number of infections in the country to 255,766.

With no fatalities recorded, the health officials noted that the death toll still stands at 3,143.

NCDC added that between Saturday 29th of April till today, three people recovered from the infection and were on Tuesday discharged from hospital across the country, this raised the total recoveries to 249,914.

While the number of active cases has increased to 2,709 as at May 2 2022, NCDC added that 5,114,703 blood samples had been tested since the pandemic began in 2020.