Despite the effort by authorities to flatten the curve of the pandemic, COVID-19 cases in Nigeria increased further on Monday with 229 cases.
The new cases were confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Twitter.
Data from the NCDC showed that the cases were spread across 14 states with Lagos accounting for the highest number of infections for the day with 90 cases, katsina 27 cases, 26 in IMO, 23, in Kaduna, 14 in the federal capital territory, 12 in plateau,9 in Ogun,7 in delta, 5 each in borno and rivers,4 in Oyo, 3 in gombe,2 in Ogun while anambra and bayelsa had one case each
This takes the country’s total infections to 8,068 out of which 2,311 have been discharged with 233 losing their lives.
