Nigeria recorded 315 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, according Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
NCDC announced the bee cases in a tweet on Monday night, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 12,801.
NCDC report shoes that Lagos State recorded the highest number of infections for the day in the country with 128 cases while the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Rivers State had 34 and 32 cases respectively.
A further breakdown of the new cases showed that Edo State has 28 infections, Oyo (22), Kaduna (20), Gombe (13), Ogun (8) and Plateau (5).
Others are Delta (7), Kwara (7), Kano (5), Bauchi (4), and Katsina (2).
Of the number of positive cases in Nigeria so far, 4040 persons have fully recovered and have been discharged while 361 persons have died.
