The Rainbow
Nigeria confirmed 556 ne coronavirus infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases in Nigeria to 36,663.
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control in its daily update via its Twitter handle revealed that the new cases were reported across 17 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Which means that 19 out of Nigeria’s 36 states did not log in any new case of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
But this time around it is Edo State that recorded the highest amount of cases with 104 infections, a position which Lagos occupy in most of the days.
Lagos however came in on the the second place with 97 infections recorded while the FCT had 70 new infections, Benue – 66, Oyo – 61, Kaduna – 38, Plateau – 28, Osun – 19, and Akwa Ibom – 14.
Three states – Rivers, Katsina, and Ondo, reported thirteen new infections.
Ogun, Kano, and Nasarawa recorded 6, 5, and 4 cases each while Gombe and Ekiti had two cases apiece.
Only one case was recorded in Borno State, bring the total number of cases recorded in Nigeria to 36,663.
The records show that 15, 105 persons have been discharged, with 789 deaths recorded so far.
