Nigeria on Monday confirmed 290 fresh cases of COVID-19 with the number of recovered persons now 33,346.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced the figures in a tweet on its official Twitter handle.
The new cases were confirmed in 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), taking the number of confirmed cases in the country to 46,867.
The NCDC latest data indicate that Lagos reported the highest cases for the day with 82new cases,followed by Plateau with 82 new infections.
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Other states with fresh cases are Oyo – 19, FCT – 18; Edo – 16; Kaduna – 15; Enugu -9; Ogun – 9; Kano -8; Kwara – 8; Cross River -5; Ondo – 5; Rivers -5; Ekiti -4; Imo – 3 and Borno -2.
The disease has so far claimed 950 lives, the NCDC data showed.
