Nigeria, on Sunday, recorded its highest daily figure since the outbreak of the novel disease in Nigeria.
86 cases new cases of the virus have recorded across seven states in Nigeria, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reports.
With the new cases, the total tally of infected people in the country rose to 627 from 541 reported on Saturday evening.
The national health agency in a tweet late Sunday night said that new cases were reported in Lagos, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Katsina, Akwa Ibom, Jigawa, Bauchi and Borno states.
Two states, Jigawa and Borno, reported their first cases of the infection on Sunday.
Also, Lagos State reported its highest daily figure of confirmed cases since the index case was reported in February.
A breakdown of the newest update shows that 70 of the new cases were reported from Lagos, seven in the FCT, three each in Katsina and Akwa Ibom, and one each in Jigawa, Borno, and Bauchi.
“As of 11:50 p.m. on April 19, there were 627 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria. Of these, 170 infected people have recovered and have been discharged while the death toll rose to 21 from 19 reported on Saturday,” NCDC tweeted.
A breakdown of all the cases shows that Lagos State has so far reported 376 cases, followed by FCT – 88, Kano – 36, Osun – 20, Oyo – 16, Edo – 15, Ogun and Katsina, 12 cases each, while Kwara and Akwa Ibom have recorded nine cases each.
Bauchi has 7 cases, Kaduna – 6, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti, 3 cases each, Enugu, Rivers, Niger and Jigawa have two cases each, while Benue, Anambra, and Borno have recorded one piece.
A total of 21 states and the FCT have so far reported at least a case of the disease.
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